Spotlight: Brazil's interim gov't concludes first month packed with scandals
Spotlight: Brazil's interim gov't concludes first month packed with scandals
Source: Xinhua 2016-06-13 15:47:35
BRASILIA, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's interim government has concluded its first month in power with a cascade of scandals, which may undermine its reform plans and increase the suspended President Dilma Rousseff's chances of returning to power.
Interim President Michel Temer of the center-right Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) was designated to take over on May 12, after Rousseff, of the left-leaning Workers' Party (PT), was suspended from the presidency pending an impeachment trial.
While Rousseff was sidelined for the alleged window-dressing of fiscal accounts to make the public deficit look smaller, which she has denied, Temer is experiencing a deeper credibility crisis as his cabinet members face allegations of more serious crimes, including embezzling public funds.
Temer's Minister of Planning Romero Juca, who is also head of the PMDB, was forced to step down last month after leaked tapes indicated he voted in favor of impeaching Rousseff to stop a corruption investigation involving him and other politicians.
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