10 Reasons Why Vice President Michel Temer Won’t Be Brazil’s Next President

On Sunday, April 17, right after the lower house of Congress voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, I wrote that the Workers’ Party was over.

That doesn’t mean, however, that Vice President Michel Temer will become the next president.

The Hypocrisy Underlying Brazil’s Impeachment Movement

Beleaguered Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff struck a defiant tone on Tuesday, two days after 367 members of Brazil’s lower house of Congress voted to advance impeachment procedures against her.

Speaking with reporters, Rousseff described the move as “a coup” and vowed to defend herself before the Senate, which will begin impeachment hearings on April 26.

Eduardo Cunha: Brazil president's chief accuser faces allegations of his own

After the impeachment vote against Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff, attention is shifting to her accuser-in-chief, who is charged with greater crimes – but looks more likely to escape justice.

The lower house speaker, Eduardo Cunha, an evangelical conservative and conspiratorial mastermind, started and steered the drive to remove the country’s first female leader from power as a means of reducing the risks to himself from investigations by a congressional ethics committee and prosecutors for alleged perjury, money laundering and receipt of at least $5m in bribes.

To Support Dilma Rousseff’s Impeachment Is To Support A Conspiracy

The list of absurdities that we’ve seen play out over these last few weeks, leading up to Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment, is long. That’s why I’ll only explore the latest chapter here: The unprecedented insanity and vanity displayed by Vice President Michel Temer.

I know that most of those in favor of the impeachment are no longer — and perhaps have never been — sensible. So there’s no point in explaining that what’s at stake is not merely the Worker’s Party or Dilma. They have both made plenty of mistakes and deserve harsh criticism, but they also deserve recognition for the advancements that they have undeniably brought about in Brazil.

After Vote to Remove Brazil’s President, Key Opposition Figure Holds Meetings in Washington

BRAZIL’S LOWER HOUSE of Congress on Sunday voted to impeach the country’s president, Dilma Rousseff, sending the removal process to the Senate. In an act of unintended though rich symbolism, the House member who pushed impeachment over the 342-vote threshold was Dep. Bruno Araújo, himself implicated by a document indicating he may have received illegal funds from the construction giant at the heart of the nation’s corruption scandal. Even more significantly, Araújo belongs to the center-right party PSDB, whose nominees have lost four straight national elections to Rousseff’s moderate-left PT party, with the last ballot-box defeat delivered just 18 months ago, when 54 million Brazilians voted to re-elect Dilma as president.