Corruption Charges Against Temer Stall Brazil Reform Drive
Corruption Charges Against Temer Stall Brazil Reform Drive
"Temer appears to still have enough legislative support to survive a vote in Congress," said Prospectiva Consulting’s Ricardo Sennes at an AS/COA program.
Criminal charges against Brazilian President Michel Temer are the latest blow to a reform agenda designed to jump start Latin America’s largest economy, as the nation’s capital prepares for another drawn out political showdown.
Chief public prosecutor Rodrigo Janot on Monday night pressed corruption charges against Temer in an unprecedented development that may put the embattled president of Latin America’s largest economy on trial...
Temer is likely to muster the necessary votes -- just over one-third -- in Brazil’s chamber of deputies to block a trial, said Cleber Verde, head of the PRB party in the lower house…
Temer appears to still have enough legislative support to survive a vote in Congress, according to Ricardo Sennes, managing partner at Prospectiva Consulting. "But this is survival in legal, judiciary terms,” he said during a panel at the Americas Society in New York. "In political terms... for the population this guy is guilty no matter the proofs."…
