After impeachment, ex-President Rousseff leads a quiet life in a middle-class apartment

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After impeachment, ex-President Rousseff leads a quiet life in a middle-class apartment

9:47 CAT | 01 Nov 2016

Folha de Sao Paulo / This is where Dilma Rousseff lives, in Copacabana Street, southern part of Porto Alegre

After being removed from the Presidency by the impeachment process, Dilma Rousseff is leading a quiet life in a middle-class apartment in Porto Alegre (RS). She avoids talking about politics and often rides a bicycle through the Tristeza neighborhood accompanied by her security detail.

She shows her wrists. She developed (RSS) Repetitive Stress Syndrome from lots of such two-wheeled riding, a habit she developed during her time as President. But she doesn’t show any signs of quitting any time soon.

She has plans to publish a book. “I want to write a police romance. I like these a lot, I read them a lot”, she says, pondering several in her collection.

The apartment in Porto Alegre has a ground floor of about 70 m2, with furniture piled about, and another 50 or so m2 on the second floor.

In her bedroom there is only a bed and a wide-screen TV. There is another bedroom stuffed full of boxes. Dilma says that any day now she plans to deal with them.

In the bathroom, a glass shower-box reveals a pair of flip-flops anchored up against the side diagonally, like they were put there to drain water and dry out.

It’s like any other typical middle-class residence. Nothing like the palaces she has spent her time in during most the last five years.

Doesn’t it seem odd to live here after living in the Alvorada Palace?, asks a reporter. “No. Lula himself said to me: ‘Why do you need a big place. Stay in a small place like this one'”.

Then she says that she is getting used to everything. And she has plans to cultivate a garden in the big and empty area outside of the second floor. There isn’t much privacy there though. There is another building right next to this one and another that is still under construction.

Source: Folha de São Paulo