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Weekly Report - 21 May 2015 (WR-15-20)
BRAZIL: Rousseff gets supreme court nominee approved
The senate voted by 52 to 27 this week in favour of approving Luiz Edson Fachin to the federal supreme court (STF). The vote was a significant victory for President Dilma Rousseff, who nominated Fachin. Only five supreme court judges have ever been rejected by the senate in the history of Brazil as a republic, but the executive had looked so weak that at one point it appeared Fachin could have become the sixth.
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