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Weekly Report - 13 March 2014 (WR-14-10)
BRAZIL: Planalto versus the Blocão
It all started with a tweet. Unable to resist the lure of the social media site during his Carnival break in the US, on 5 March the leader of the Partido Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (PMDB) in the lower chamber, Eduardo Cunha, wrote that the ruling Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) did not respect his party and that it should therefore “rethink its alliance”. Since then the representatives of the two parties, longstanding coalition allies, have ratcheted up the rhetoric. President Dilma Rousseff responded to Cunha’s insurrection by attempting to isolate him; in turn, Cunha has now mobilised not just his PMDB colleagues, but other disgruntled deputies to launch a series of investigations into at least five ministries and the state-run oil company, Petrobras.
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