Fora Temer!
(“Out Temer!”) has become the battle cry of the streets and with
that, a call for the return of democracy. teleSUR takes a look at
social movements and popular organizations demanding Temer's removal
and fresh elections.
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With three
impeachment requests by parliamentarians in less than 24 hours,
Michel Temer finds himself isolated and battered, unable to ward off
a backlash after a wiretap implicated him in approving bribes that
would obstruct the hand of justice.
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On Thursday,
Parana Institute Research released a survey indicating that 87
percent of Brazilians favor the immediate removal of Temer .
Meanwhile, 88 percent support Temer's impeachment, resignation, or
removal by the Supreme Court.
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Brazil's top court approved Thursday an investigation into unelected
President Michel Temer over a new explosive wiretap recording that
revealed the president had signed off on sizeable bribes to manage
the fallout of corruption scandals swirling around his administration
and keep a powerful witness from speaking out on government
corruption, Brazil's Globo TV reported.
The decision
came hours after the Federal Supreme Court suspended Senator Aecio
Neves Thursday morning, a Temer ally who was also embroiled in the
wiretap scandal for soliciting hefty bribes. Police carried out
search warrants in apartments owned by Neves in Rio de Janeiro and
Belo Horizonte, as well as his and other lawmakers’ congressional
offices as part of the country’s largest-ever corruption probe,
known as Operation Car Wash, investigating dozens of politicians and
business elites involved in fraud schemes linked to the state-run oil
company, Petrobras.
The court's
decisions came a day after one of Brazil’s largest newspapers, O
Globo, released damning wiretap evidence that the senator had
requested bribes to the tune of 2 million Brazilian reais, or about
US$638,000 from Joesley Batista, an owner of the world’s largest
meat processing company, JBS. Authorities arrested Thursday the
senator's sister Andrea Neves and cousin Frederico Pacheco de
Madeiros, who reportedly received suitcases of dirty money from
Batista on Neves' behalf.
Neves had
previously been named in the high-profile Operation Car Wash
investigations together with Temer and a number of his top allies. In
2014, the senator lost the presidential runoff election to Rousseff
and was a leading advocate of the ill-footed impeachment campaign
against her, widely condemned as a coup.
The court
also ordered the suspension of lower house lawmaker Rodrigo Rocha
Loures, a member of Temer's conservative PMDB party and former top
aide to the president. The Batista wiretap also implicated Rocha for
receiving bribes to sort out issues with a JBS holding, J&F.
The same
tape revealed that Temer had also given his blessing to hefty bribes
in the name of keeping a key witness, Eduardo Cunha, quiet in the
corruption investigations. Cunha, the former speaker of the lower
house, the chief mastermind behind the parliamentary coup dressed as
an impeachment process against former President Dilma Rousseff and an
ally of the unelected president, was sentenced to 15 years in jail in
March for corruption, money laundering and tax evasion.
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