Brazil Temer: Car rams gate of presidential palace

[Judi Lynn]

Brazil Temer: Car rams gate of presidential palace
35 minutes ago




AFP
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Protesters daubed "Temer out" on the street outside the palace in September

A car has rammed the gate of the Brazilian president's palace in the capital Brasilia as pressure grows on Michel Temer to resign.

Security forces fired warning shots and the driver, who is underage, was detained, a government statement said.

Mr Temer was not in the Alvorada Palace at the time.

Brazilian media have shown footage of a gate lying on the ground along with what appear to be a number of spent bullet cartridges.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. Brazil president in trouble as top senator quits and says government 'discredited'

Departing Senate leader has been a rival of Michel Temer’s and apparently wants to distance himself from the deeply unpopular president ahead of re-election bid

Jonathan Watts in Rio de Janeiro
Wednesday 28 June 2017 18.42 EDT


Another thread of support has been cut away from Brazil’s scandal-plagued president Michel Temer after the ruling party’s senate leader resigned and declared the government to be “discredited”.

Renan Calheiros quit his post just hours after the supreme court sent a request to the legislature for the president to be put on trial for allegedly accepting millions of dollars in bribes from the meat-packing company JBS.

The departing Senate leader has long been a rival of Temer’s inside the centre-right Brazilian Democratic Movement party and apparently wants to distance himself from the deeply unpopular president ahead of a re-election bid next year.

In a statement to announce his resignation, Calheiros hinted at the power struggles taking place inside the ruling camp. “I have no vocation to be a puppet,” he declared.

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