Michel Temer faces first big challenge

BRAZIL POLITICS - Report 05 May 2015 by Murillo de Aragão and Cristiano Noronha

The House of Representatives may vote this afternoon on the first interim measure of the fiscal adjustment: MP 665/14, on unemployment insurance and salary bonuses. The vote will be the first major test of Vice President Michel Temer. In early April he took over the government’s political coordination. Temer is mobilizing all of the PMDB. Ministers Eliseu Padilha (Civil Aviation) and Henrique Eduardo Alves (Tourism) were chosen to help convince the PMDB congressmen. It is unlikely that the party would work to impose on the VP such a symbolic defeat. However, the PMDB expects full support fr...

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