I don’t have the exact numbers but they were like 40,50, 100 people.
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To top it all, Temer, in his few months as interim president, couldn’t come up with a minimal political platform.
Temer also is banned from running for office the next eight years because Sao Paulo’s electoral court found him guilty of violating campaign spending laws in 2014.
“There is no consensus within the government alliance on any of these austerity measures”, said Raimundo Lira, a senior senator with Temer’s Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB). She also felt the effect of the corruption scandal involving the state oil company and kickbacks to politicians and political parties, including Ms Rousseff’s own leftist Workers Party (PT), which, until her ouster, was in the presidency for 13 years.
Brazil’s ousted President Dilma Rousseff pauses during a press conference at the official residence Alvorada Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Friday, Sept. 2, 2016. “I am aware that if I do become the president, I, too, could be processed for any political wrongdoing”, he said. In Argentina, President Mauricio Macri has gained investor confidence by unwinding regressive economic policies, including currency controls, providing a model for Temer and his advisers as they struggle to lift Brazil from a two-year recession, its deepest on record.
“These unfortunate events, unacceptable in the 21st century, pose a serious risk to the stability of our region and constitute a grave setback in the consolidation of democracy”, said Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa on Twitter. She consistently called the impeachment a coup d’état and denounced Temer as a “usurper”. Remarkably, most of those who voted to oust her are themselves now under investigation for corruption.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro tweeted: “All solidarity with @dilma and the people of Brazil, we condemn the right-wing oligarchic coup, those who fight will prevail!”
Still, members of the new government dismiss the importance of the recent protests that have been organized in Brazil’s main cities.
Following the Brazilian senate vote of 61 against 20 to impeach Rousseff on Wednesday on accusation that she moved funds between government budgets to plug deficit holes in popular social programmes, the Cuban government said the happenings in Brasilia was another expression of offensive of imperialism and the oligarchy against revolutionary and progressive governments in Latin America and the Caribbean.
New elections would first require that Temer resign, which he has no intention of doing.
Last Thursday, the President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff, together with her defense attorneys, filed an appeal to the Supreme Court (STJ) to reverse the decision to remove her from office.
Sunday’s protests were the largest string of demonstrations to take place in Brazil since Temer was sworn in to replace Rousseff.
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A lead lawyer for the case to impeach Rousseff, Senator Janaina Paschoal, asked forgiveness for causing the president “suffering”, but insisted it was the right thing to do.
