Tag: Rodrigo Maia

• Tuesday, March 13th 2018 - 09:20 UTC

  Brazil's speaker of the Lower House also wants to run for the presidency

  

  The speaker of Brazil’s lower house of Congress, Rodrigo Maia, said he will run for the presidency with a market-friendly platform advocating tax cuts and more efficient public spending. Maia’s preliminary nomination by his centre-right Democrats party, the main ally to President Michel Temer, must be formalized at a convention in late July.

• Wednesday, January 31st 2018 - 09:06 UTC

  Pension reform dispute between Brazil's Executive and Congress

  

  Brazilian Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles said on Monday that although there may be differences in strategy between president Michel Temer and the speaker of the House of Representatives, Rodrigo Maia, everyone's goal is to ensure the approval of the pension reform.

• Thursday, July 13th 2017 - 08:41 UTC

  Temer faces challenge in Congress from his potential successor

  

  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.

• 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

  

  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.