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WhatsApp dirty tricks alleged in Brazil presidential race
Ordinary Brazilians told AFP that some in their families or entourage swallowed some misinformation from WhatsApp but denied they themselves were being...
Lula had stepped aside to allow running mate Fernando Haddad to stand for the presidency, Hoffman said.
Lula, who is still Brazil’s most influential politician, is expected to name a stand-in at the last minute in mid-September.
The imprisonment of Lula, Brazil’s first working-class president, throws the October presidential election wide open as he leads the race in opinion polls.
Lula was convicted last year for taking bribes from an engineering firm in return for help landing contracts with state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA.
The pivotal vote was cast by Justice Rosa Weber against Lula’s request to avoid jail and begin serving his 12-year sentence for accepting bribes.
The director, she said, “doesn’t merely reproduce fake news. He has turned himself into a creator of fake news.”
The Secretariat of Public Security of Parana said in a statement that it was investigating the incident and that Lula was not on the bus at the time of the attack.
If Temer is removed from office, lower House Speaker Rodrigo Maia would take over and Congress would have 30 days to pick a caretaker.
Brazil’s economy eked out growth in the first quarter following its most painful recession in more than a century.
Rousseff is expected to become the first Brazilian leader in more than 20 years to be dismissed from office.
The leftist leader will appear before the 81 senators on Monday to defend herself.
Rousseff’s removal would mark an end to 13 years of leftist rule over Latin America’s largest economy.
The leftist leader says the move is meant to limit her ability to move around the country.
Interim President Michel Temer was counting on Romero Juca, a close confidant and experienced senator.
Presidential chief of staff Eliseu Padilha says the incoming govt understands it’s only provisional for now.
Temer has told Brazilians to have confidence they'll overcome the crisis sparked by a deep economic recession.
She says Brazil’s future & democracy is now at stake because her opposition conspired against her.
If she loses the Senate vote, Rousseff will be replaced by vice president Michel Temer as acting president.