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Montevideo, December 13th 2025 - 23:34 UTC

Tag: Michel Temer

  • Friday, April 7th 2017 - 12:14 UTC

    Temer accepts to water down landmark pensions' reform to ensure congressional approval

    A revamp of Brazil's costly pension system is the centerpiece of Temer's crusade to balance the government budget and reverse the rise in public debt

    Brazilian President Michel Temer plans to water down its landmark pension reform proposal to ease lawmakers' resistance to the controversial bill key to rebalance the government's depleted finances. Temer said in a radio interview on Thursday he has authorized the lawmaker sponsoring the plan to alter its terms as long as he maintains the bill's minimum retirement age. He did not specify what changes could take place.

  • Wednesday, April 5th 2017 - 21:06 UTC

    Over 55% openly disapprove of president Temer's performance

    Compared to Dilma Rousseff, 18% said Temer's administration was better; 41% preferred Rousseff's performance and 38% found them the same.

    The approval rating for the government of Brazil's President Michel Temer has fallen to just 10%, with 55% actively disapproving of its management of the country, a new poll by the Ibope polling company showed on Friday.

  • Tuesday, April 4th 2017 - 20:09 UTC

    Brazil's Temer strategy to fend off electoral trial on campaign funding is working

    It is the first time the TSE will decide on the mandate of a sitting president. If the tribunal decides illegal donations were used it could annul the election result

    Brazil's top electoral court on Tuesday delayed proceedings in a landmark trial about illegal campaign funding that could lead to the removal of President Michel Temer less than a year after he took over from impeached leftist Dilma Rousseff, and 18 months before the 2018 presidential election.

  • Sunday, April 2nd 2017 - 08:34 UTC

    Electoral Court decides this week on continuity of Temer's presidency

    Ex President Rousseff and Temer are accused of taking undeclared campaign funds from corrupt donors.

    Brazilian President Michel Temer is facing a terrible week, with a court theoretically annulling his presidency and forcing him to step down from office. Temer is widely expected to find a way to escape this. But the mere fact that a court is considering such a thing shows the depths of uncertainty in Latin America’s biggest country as it tries to survive in a huge corruption scandal, a two-year recession and record unemployment.

  • Friday, March 31st 2017 - 05:05 UTC

    Odebrecht insists Rousseff was aware of slush funds provided for the presidential campaign

    Odebrecht said he never received a “specific” request for money from Temer and pointed former ministers Guido Mantega and Antonio Palocci as his contacts

    One of Brazil's leading newspapers, Folha de Sao Paulo, reported that the Odebrecht family group confessed to have provided the 2014 presidential ticket campaign, Dilma Rousseff-Michel Temer with millions of dollars in slush funds for the campaign.

  • Friday, March 31st 2017 - 04:39 UTC

    Rousseff's “hangman” sentenced to 15 years in prison for corruption

    The former Lower House speaker’s defense team said they would appeal the decision but Cunha will remain imprisoned pending appeal.

    A federal court sentenced Brazil’s former speaker of the Lower House, Eduardo Cunha, to more than 15 years in prison on Thursday for corruption, making him the highest-profile political conviction yet in the “Operation Car Wash” scandal. The former politician’s defense team said they would appeal the decision but Cunha will remain imprisoned pending appeal.

  • Thursday, March 30th 2017 - 10:11 UTC

    Brazil and US in talks for a Temer visit to the White House

    President Donald Trump invited Temer for a visit during a March 18 phone call, when the two leaders discussed deepening commercial and business ties

    Brazilian and U.S. officials are in talks about a White House visit by President Michel Temer to discuss bilateral trade and investment issues, according to Planalto sources. U.S. President Donald Trump invited Temer for a visit during a March 18 phone call, when the two leaders discussed deepening commercial and business ties between the Western Hemisphere's largest economies, the sources said.

  • Thursday, March 30th 2017 - 06:25 UTC

    Brazil's Temer job on the line: Electoral Court could force him out of office on campaign financing

    The Dilma Rousseff-Michel Temer presidential campaign is accused of being financed with dodgy money.

    Brazilian President Michel Temer since taking office, in May 2016, has faced one crisis after the other, and now the man who rose to power thanks to an impeachment process of Dilma Rousseff, faces himself the threat of removal from office.

  • Friday, March 24th 2017 - 11:50 UTC

    Temer close aide sworn as a Justice in Brazil's Supreme Court

    Moraes headed the Ministry of Justice when he was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Michel Temer.

    Jurist Alexandre de Moraes was sworn into office as a Justice in Brazil's Supreme Court on Wednesday. Moraes will fill the seat left by Justice Teori Zavascki, who died in a plane crash in January. Moraes headed the Ministry of Justice when was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Michel Temer. His nomination to the top court was confirmed by the Senate last month. He is expected to take charge of 7,500 cases as he joins the court.

  • Tuesday, March 21st 2017 - 10:15 UTC

    China, EU, Korea, Chile suspend beef and poultry imports from Brazil

    A charm offensive by President Temer, who even invited foreign ambassadors to a traditional meat restaurant in Brasilia late Sunday, failed to calm importers.

    The fallout from Brazil's rotten meat scandal accelerated Monday when China, a huge market, suspended imports and the European Union and South Korea demanded a partial ban. Another ban on Brazilian meat imposed by Chile sparked fears of a trade spat between the two South American partners.