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Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
Sun Jul 9, 2017, 12:53 PM Jul 2017

Articulation to Make Brazil's Speaker Rodrigo Maia President Grows in the Lower House


07/07/2017 - 10H10

BRUNO BOGHOSSIAN
MARINA DIAS
FROM BRASÍLIA
The maneuvers to make Rodrigo Maia (DEM-RJ), the speaker of the Lower House, substitute Michel Temer as the president of Brazil are gaining support among Temer's base and have been discussed even at the official residence of the president of the house in Brasília.

The accusation against Temer of official misconduct and the quick decline of the president's political status in the government changed Maia's behavior in the background and made politicians regard Maia, the first in the presidential line of succession, as a potential new commander of Brazil.

Throughout the crisis begun by the plea bargain of JBS executives, which affected Temer directly, Maia avoided any discussion regarding the possibility of substituting the president. Folha verified, however, that recently Maia began to tell his closer allies that it could occur.

The speaker of the Lower House, however, denies publicly any action to weaken the government.

More:
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2017/07/1899248-articulation-to-make-brazils-speaker-rodrigo-maia-president-grows-in-the-lower-house.shtml
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