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Weekly Report - 09 February 2017 (WR-17-05)

BRAZIL: Temer stages political comeback

Despite getting off to a bumpy start, 2017 is already looking more promising than 2016 for Brazil’s President Michel Temer. Towards the end of last year, the left-wing opposition Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) threatened to launch impeachment proceedings against Temer amid widespread anti-government protests. This week, however, Temer’s allies firmly reasserted their control over congress and consolidated his support base in Brasília. This increases the chance that Temer’s ambitious reform package will go through and makes the prospect of his ouster extremely unlikely.

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