Organisers said 50,000 people – a record number – turned out in Sao Paulo alone for a seventh day of protests against the new President Michel Temer.
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Around 100,000 demonstrators participated in a rally in Sao Paolo’s Paulista Avenue, organizers said on Sunday.
Sao Paulo authorities said they were forced to use tear gas, stun grenades and water cannons to stop vandalism after an “initially peaceful” demonstration against President Michel Temer.
Rousseff – Brazil’s first female President – was impeached by the country’s Senate on Wednesday and replaced by Temer, who previously served as her Vice President.
Mr Temer took office after Dilma Rousseff was removed from the presidency in an impeachment trial.
“Out, Temer!” or “Elections now!”, we’re the messages written by the protestants on giant banners.
Referring to the double vote at the plenary session of the Senate on August 31, and as a result of which she was finally removed from office, Dilma noted that at the very least, it was something unusual.
Temer was sworn in as Brazil’s new leader on Wednesday following the ouster of President Dilma Rousseff.
Japan and Brazil have been working with India and Germany, forming what they call the Group of Four, to seek representation as permanent members on an enlarged Security Council.
The opposition dismissed the president’s figures: “The coup president of Brazil said that our demonstration would have 40 people”. I don’t have the exact numbers but they were like 40,50, 100 people.
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The meeting confirmed the good terms between the governments of Mercosur bloc’s two biggest economies, after the Let’s Change (Cambiemos) administration was one of the few regional leaders (next to Chile, Peru and Paraguay) to quickly recognize Temer’s replacement of Rousseff as fully within Brazil’s institutional framework. “Here are those 40 people-we’re already nearly 100,000 on Paulista Avenue”, Guilherme Boulos, one of the event organizers, said.
