Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians marched peacefully on Sunday in over 50 cities around the country to demand President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment and to criticise government corruption.

Police estimated 15,000 people marched along Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, where they waved Brazilian flags and many openly called for a military coup to dissolve the government.

The biggest protests were in Sao Paulo, an opposition stronghold where hundreds of thousands gathered on a main avenue, as well as in the capital city Brasilia and Rio.

In Brasilia, police say 45,000 people gathered on the Ministries’ Esplanade, while 24,000 people demonstrated in Belo Horizonte, according to military police.

Dozens of cities saw demonstrations gathering together a few thousand people each.

According to the website of the Globo TV network, Brazil’s largest, the total number in the streets across Brazil was over 300,000 people, based on local police estimates.

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