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Weekly Report - 22 June 2017 (WR-17-24)
BRAZIL: New pressure on Temer
No sooner has one threat to unseat President Michel Temer receded (the 9 June decision by the supreme electoral tribunal [TSE] to dismiss charges of electoral fraud) than another has followed hard on its heels. On 20 June the supreme court (STF) released federal police files claiming “irrefutable evidence” that Temer had been involved in “passive corruption”. To make matters worse for the embattled president, his proposed labour reforms have received an unexpected setback in the federal senate.
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