Brazil speaker Cunha opens impeachment proceedings against president

BRASILIA, Dec 2 (Reuters) - The speaker of Brazil's lower house of Congress, Eduardo Cunha, said on Wednesday he had accepted the opposition's motion to open impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff.

Opposition parties seeking to unseat Rousseff filed the request in September. They accuse the unpopular president of violating Brazil's fiscal laws and manipulating government finances to benefit her reelection last year.