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Michel Temer being awarded the legislative merit medal, November 2015. In 2016, he was accused of having a lobbyist bribe others between 1997 and 2001 in ethanol deals through state-run oil company Petrobras.
Michel Temer (born September 23, 1940, Tietê, São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian politician who became president of Brazil in August 2016 after the Senate ousted Dilma Rousseff in an impeachment vote. He was the eighth and youngest son of Lebanese immigrants who had arrived in Brazil in 1925.
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The presidency of Michel Temer began on May 12, 2016, when the vice-president of the Republic, Michel Temer, temporarily assumed the position of president of the Brazilian Republic, after the temporary removal of President Dilma Rousseff, as a result of the acceptance of the impeachment process by the Federal Senate.
May 10, 2016 · 1. Wall Street likes him. Temer, a 75-year-old attorney and former speaker of the House known as a backroom negotiator, is someone investors seem to like. He’s head of the Brazilian Democratic...
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- He is “nearly the opposite” of Rousseff. Temer, who has been elected to Congress four times, is “nearly the opposite” of Rousseff in terms of his political views and experience, according to The Economist.
- But like Rousseff, he has been accused of corruption. Temer is not free from scandal; he’s currently being investigated for receiving an illicit $400,000 campaign donation in 2012 from the state oil company Petrobras.
- He is pretty unpopular in Brazil. A poll in April by Brazil’s Folha de S.Paulo newspaper found that 60% of respondents supported Rousseff’s ouster, and 58% wanted to get rid of Temer too, USA Today reports.
- His wife is a 33-year-old former beauty queen. Temer’s wife of 13 years, Marcela Temer, is former Miss São Paulo and more than 40 years his junior. She has been criticized by media outlets for her ‘Marie Antoinette’ spending during times of Brazil’s economic uncertainty, with MailOnline reporting that she has a nanny, a cook and two maids, as well as her mother and sister, to help her look after her only son, Michelzinho, who is seven.
Aug 31, 2016 · Temer's formal ascension to the presidency ends 13 years of rule by the left-wing Workers Party that helped lift tens of millions of Brazilians out of poverty during an economic boom that came...
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Mar 21, 2019 · In 2016, when ex-President Dilma Rousseff was accused of manipulating the government budget and her impeachment trial was launched, then Vice-President Temer stepped in as acting president.
