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Weekly Report - 22 September 2016 (WR-16-37)

BRAZIL: Temer defends Rousseff impeachment before UN

Brazilian President Michel Temer opened the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on 19 September, following a 71-year-old tradition. Temer felt the need to defend his installation as president, declaring in his speech that the impeachment of his predecessor, Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016), by Brazil’s federal congress last month, which was overseen by the country’s supreme court, “took place in absolute respect to the constitutional order”.

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