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Temer survives Brazil court vote over presidential mandate
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jun 09, 2017 11:14pm |
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| Category | Legal Ruling |
| Author | Joe Leahy |
| News Date | Saturday, June 10, 2017 05:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Brazil’s electoral court voted on Friday against a motion that would have terminated the mandate of Brazil’s embattled president Michel Temer and deepened a political crisis gripping Latin America’s biggest country.
The seven judges of the court voted four to three to reject a motion that would have potentially ousted Mr Temer from power and under Brazil’s constitution forced congress to choose a caretaker president until direct elections could be held next year.
“We are dealing with a special situation,” said the president of the court, Gilmar Mendes, in casting the deciding vote against terminating the mandate. He argued that the court needed to be responsible to avoid creating political turmoil. “Brazil has a history of great instability . . . it’s this reality we are dealing with.”
The case was originally brought after the last presidential election in 2014 by the then opposition party, the PSDB, against former president Dilma Rousseff after she narrowly defeated the party’s candidate, Aécio Neves.
However, the case, in which the PSDB alleged that Ms Rousseff`s election campaign benefited from illegal funds, boomeranged on to Mr Temer. |
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