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Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia is a Brazilian politician, lawyer, poet and writer who served as the 37th president of Brazil from 2016 to 2019. He took office after the impeachment and removal from office of his predecessor Dilma Rousseff. He had been the 24th vice president since 2011 and acting president since 12 May 2016, when Rousseff's powers and duties were suspended pending an impeachment…
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Born 23 September 1940 · Q463533
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In democracy, as I see it, a leader needs to have the support of the streets, which the president currently lacks. If that is gone, then you need the support of the national congress. But that is also gone. When you lose both those elements, you lose the capacity to govern.
But I have concluded there is sufficient evidence to admit the process.
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“In democracy, as I see it, a leader needs to have the support of the streets, which the president currently lacks. If that is gone, then you need the support of the national congress. But that is also gone. When you lose both those elements, you lose the capacity to govern.”
“But I have concluded there is sufficient evidence to admit the process.”
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice ordered Temer be included in an ongoing investigation into $3
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Had unsuccessfully attempted to change the leadership of the PF, and to implement a series of legislative initiatives focused on amnesty and changes to the code of criminal procedure
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Brazil's federal police said that investigators have found evidence the president received bribes to help businesses
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While inequalities also increased again (the Gini index rose from 0
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Was accused of having a lobbyist bribe others between 1997 and 2001 in ethanol deals through state-run oil company Petrobras
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Career landmark: President of Brazil (2016–2018).
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And 2016, Temer was involved in controversy as Dilma Rousseff's impeachment process unfolded
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When he published Anonymous Intimacy, a book of poems
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Career landmark: Vice President of the Federative Republic of Brazil (2011–2016).
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Marcela graduated with a law degree from Fadisp, a private school in São Paulo
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Under the presidency of Lula, they allowed the most disadvantaged to obtain low-cost medicines
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Temer met Marcela Tedeschi (born 1983), who was attending the annual political convention of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) with her uncle Geraldo, a Paulínia municipal employee
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Temer is also father to Eduardo (born in 1999 in London) with journalist Érica Ferraz.
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Career landmark: federal deputy of São Paulo (1994–2011).
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Career landmark: federal deputy of São Paulo (1987–1991).
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“barren arena of legislative politics”
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Temer served six consecutive terms in the Chamber of Deputies, and on three separate occasions served two-year terms as president of the Chamber (1997–1998, 1999–2000 and 2009–2010)
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“Sobre o aumento da verba de gabinete dos deputados para se aproximar de um teto de 70000 reais dos senadores.”
“Não há golpe em curso no Brasil.”
Completed a doctorate in public law at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP)
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Temer and his first wife Maria Célia Toledo had three daughters: Luciana (1969), Maristela (1972), and Clarissa (1974).
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Temer began teaching constitutional law at PUC-SP, where he also taught civil law and was director of the postgraduate department and of the Brazilian Institute Of Constitutional Law as well as a member of the Ibero-Amer
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Temer ran for the presidency of the union, but was defeated by 82 votes
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Like his four older brothers he joined the Law School of the University of São Paulo, graduating in 1963
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Moved to São Paulo to finish high school in the "curso clássico", composed mainly of subjects in the humanities and languages
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Born 1940-09-23.
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