“O Brasil vive momentos que serão decisivos para o nosso futuro. O que está em jogo na votação do impeachment não é apenas o meu mandato. O que está em jogo é o respeito às urnas”.

In 2015 and 2016, Temer has been involved in controversy as Dilma Roussef‘s impeachment process unfolds. In December 2015, Temer sent a letter (Carta de Temer a Dilma) to the president complaining about his distance from government decisions. The letter began in Latin with the proverb „Verba Volant, Scripta Manent“ which translates to „spoken words fly, written words remain“. Mr. Temer then describes the communication as “personal,” and a means of unburdening himself about various complaints against the president. He said Ms. Rousseff has made him look like a “decorative” vice president rather than an active one, despite having being invited to support the government of his running mate several times in the dialogue with Congress. Mr. Temer only accepted that role in 2015.

The letter has already been widely mocked on Brazilian social media, with images depicting the vice president as a Christmas decoration, making fun of his use of Latin, and photos purporting to show the president laughing while she reads the missive, among many other things. The president’s office also had no immediate comment on the images. [6]

Later, in April 2016, Mr. Temer released „accidentally“ an audio file that was allegedly sent incorrectly to a WhatsApp group of his party‘s representatives in Congress. In the audio, Mr. Temer speaks as if the impeachment process had already been confirmed and he was the sitting president. [7]

“I don’t want to generate false expectations,” Temer said on the recordings, which were first published by Folha de Sao Paulo on Monday afternoon. “Let’s not think that a possible change in government will solve everything in three or four months.”

The leak came just hours before a special lower house committee was scheduled to vote whether to back the request to impeach the president, generating complaints and accusations of treachery and lack of support from a Vice President conspiring against the elected president.

In der Zeit der Suspendierung würde Vizepräsident Temer die Politikerin der linken Arbeiterpartei ersetzen. Spätestens im Oktober könnte der Senat sie mit einer Zweidrittelmehrheit endgültig des Amtes entheben, und ihr Widersacher Temer bliebe bis 2018 Präsident. Seine Partei der demokratischen Bewegung (PMDB) hat mit der Regierung gebrochen, er hat aber weiter das Amt des Vizepräsidenten inne.

Die türkische Armee hat auch am Freitag die türkische Grenzstadt Nusaybin, die mehrheitlich von Kurden bewohnt ist, schwer beschossen. In der Stadt herrscht seit Wochen eine Ausgangssperre, in der mit schwerem Gerät quasi Krieg geführt wird. Die Aufnahmen sind von der syrischen Seite der Grenze gefilmt worden und zeigen neben der breiten Zerstörung, Rauchschwaden, die vom frischen Beschuss aufsteigen.

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