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Weekly Report - 28 July 2016 (WR-16-29)

BRAZIL: Impeachment, elections, Olympics put Brazil on pause

Brazilian media enjoyed a field day this week, when it emerged that the press office of the interim president, Michel Temer, had invited photographers to accompany the country’s leader taking his seven-year-old son, Michelzinho, to school. The ridicule that followed was revealing. Firstly, that Temer is conscious that he remains unpopular in the country at large. Secondly, that he is working to humanise his somewhat dry, professorial image. And thirdly, that at present, Temer, like much of Brazil’s political class, has little to do except to wait. Wait for the Olympics to be over, the impeachment trial to end and for the results of October’s municipal elections.

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