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Weekly Report - 14 July 2016 (WR-16-27)

Brazil’s Cunha suffers serious reverse

Political parties in Brazil are often less expressions of shared ideologies than clubs for the promotion of self-interest. Nevertheless, there are sharp differences of opinion between them; therefore the sight of both the Right and Left of the Brazilian ideological spectrum uniting to defeat the preferred successor of Eduardo Cunha as speaker of the federal lower chamber of congress was something to behold. Rogério Rosso, despite his attempts to distance himself from Cunha, was always seen as the lead choice of the ‘centrão’, the loose grouping of 200 or so deputies who owe much of their political careers to Cunha. But in the final round of voting, Rosso was defeated by Rodrigo Maia, son of a former Rio de Janeiro mayor, César Maia, by 285 votes to 170, with the votes in his support coming from both the right-wing Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB) and the left-wing Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT).

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