Temer said jokingly that Rousseff and former Brazilian presidents who are not attending will let him to be booed alone.
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Rousseff’s supporters further plan to hold protests on Friday as the Olympic Games open.
There were also some protests across Brazil against interim President Michel Temer, according to Globo TV.
On Wednesday, members of Amnesty International protested outside the Summer Games headquarters in Rio de Janeiro against the killings committed by the police around the time of big sporting events in the city. This level of unrest by the citizens of the Olympic event has not been seen before.
“I have to fulfil my institutional responsibilities”. This is in legal terms the demand for an impeachment trial of Brazil’s sitting President Dilma Rousseff.
Temer, the vice president who has been acting head of state since May, will preside over the opening ceremony and declare the Games open, amid the country’ contentious political situation.
The Senate will resume next week the impeachment process against Rousseff on charges she illegally financed government spending to cover up a widening deficit.
The last-minute completion of the 16km metro extension, which was first planned in 1998 but repeatedly delayed, was not the only challenge the project has faced: Federal investigators are probing its construction for possible corruption. “It’s just incredible what we read every day in the newspapers, corruption and more corruption, we can’t take it anymore, we have to flush it away and start anew”, he said. Rousseff’s impeachment should be concluded in the Senate on August 25 or 26, further boosting investor confidence, he said.
A few hundred people gathered on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach yesterday to push for Rousseff’s permanent removal. This was about the ascension of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) nations on a sea of rising oil prices.
“We welcome all of you and wish you a nice stay in our country”, Case Carvalho, a politician in the state of Rio de Janeiro, said through a microphone atop a parade car like those used during Carnival.
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Temer’s government also favors more flexible rules for the Mercosur trade bloc, a common market created by Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, that he argues has held back Brazil from negotiating agreements with other nations. While they said they hoped for a successful Olympic Games, they blamed the Workers Party, now embroiled in multiple corruption probes, for putting Brazil in an untenable position.
