Temer faces challenge in Congress from his potential successor

Thursday, July 13th 2017 - 08:41 UTC

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The speaker of the lower house of Brazil's Congress, Rodrigo Maia, vowed on Wednesday to fight any changes President Michel Temer makes to a landmark labor reform passed by the Senate a day earlier, highlighting fresh tension between longtime allies. Read full article

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Jack Bauer
“The speaker of the lower house of Brazil's Congress, Rodrigo Maia, vowed on Wednesday to fight any changes President Michel Temer makes to a landmark labor reform passed by the Senate a day earlier, highlighting fresh tension between longtime allies.”

Regarding the above, don't agree with the conclusion that “the comments pit Temer against the man who would replace him if Congress .....” for the simple reason that Temer himself was strongly against any changes to his original text (whereby the obligatory contribution of one day's salary to the unions is eliminated, immediately), and his signalling to the unions that he was prepared to sign an executive order that in some way would guarantee some funding, was only a ploy to encourage Congress to approve the Law, without amendments. Since Temer did not discuss this with R. Maia, at least not officially, it leaves Maia free to declare he will block any changes to the original text....exactly as Temer, and Maia, wanted right from the beginning.
This does not mean that Maia won't eventually succeed Temer, but that is another story.
Jul 13th, 2017 - 06:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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DemonTree
“a vote that Maia has said he would like to hold this week.”

Hmm, it's starting to sound like Maia fancies his chances of becoming President. Has Brazil had three Presidents in one year before?
Jul 14th, 2017 - 12:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Temer/Maia [+ their Political-Skills] are temporary ONLY!
Jul 15th, 2017 - 01:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Jack Bauer
@DT
Wouldn't put it above Maia to be secretly entertaining the possibility, but if he does substitute Temer, he'd better do a better job than Temer, or he'll have no chance at being re-elected end 2018.....no, never had 3 prez in 1 year....but there's always a first time...
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