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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...
Temer’s defense team argued that the federal police should not be able to charge Temer without the authorization of the Supreme Court or the public prosecutor’s office.
Dilma Rousseff took only 15% of the vote and was running a distant fourth in the Senate race for Minas Gerais state with nearly all the votes counted, officials 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 former president is serving time for taking bribes from an engineering firm in return for help landing contracts with a state firm.
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.
A Datafolha poll released on 2 December showed Lula getting at least 34% of votes if a presidential election were held today, double the support for his nearest rival.
The corruption case, involving the payment of bribes by meatpacker JBS SA, had paralysed Temer’s reform agenda for six months and weakened his government.
These are the first criminal charges to be levelled against Dilma Rousseff, who was impeached in 2016 for breaking budgetary laws.
Access to the area was closed after the incident. Temer lives in Jaburu, another official residence, less than a mile away from Alvorada.
Temer’s office and his attorney, Antonio Mariz, declined to comment on the charges. Temer has repeatedly said he is innocent of any wrongdoing.
That move would have killed the entire plea bargain process, which has been a key tool in uncovering massive graft schemes in recent years, prosecutors told Reuters.
Party officials said on Monday the PSDB would wait until the Supreme Court rules on whether to continue an investigation of Temer.
Centrist Temer took over the presidency following the impeachment of the left-leaning Rousseff in May for breaking budgetary rules.
Protesters at the events and in other state capitals across Brazil were shouting 'Temer Out' & 'Usurper'.
Groups protested against the removal of leftist president Dilma Rousseff.
The Senate voted 61-20 on Wednesday to dismiss the leftist leader.