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August 3, 2017

Brazilian Congress Votes to Retain President Michel Temer
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Brazilian President Michel Temer survived a vote in Brazil's lower house
of Congress Wednesday that could have seen him removed from office over
corruption charges. Lawmakers voted 263-227 to keep Temer in power, as
opposition lawmakers chanted, waved briefcases stuffed with fake money
and traded punches with the president's supporters. Temer remains in
power despite a single-digit approval rating, and even though a secretly
recorded tape captured him approving hush-money payoffs for a powerful
politician jailed on corruption charges.


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