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Weekly Report - 09 April 2015 (WR-15-14)
BRAZIL: PT-PMDB: Peace in our time?
After a bungled ministerial shake-up, the new minister for institutional relations, who happens also to be the Vice-President, Michel Temer, claims that the problems between the government and his own party, the Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (PMDB) should come to an end. While, so far, the smoke signals from others within the restive ranks of the PMDB have been positive, the party is a broad church, with at least four different factions of varying degrees of hostility to the ruling Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT).
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