Brazil's Attorney General Jose Eduardo Cardozo will ask a Congressional committee on Monday to shelve impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff on the grounds there is no legal basis for the claim, his office said in a statement.

Cardozo will argue that the decision by the Speaker of the lower house, Eduardo Cunha, to accept the impeachment request was motivated by his desire for political revenge against his bitter political enemy, Rousseff.

The opposition's impeachment request alleges that Rousseff deliberately manipulated budgetary accounts to boost her reelection in 2014 but Cardozo strongly denied any lending from state banks to the Federal government to fund social programs, the statement said.