The Latest: Brazilian lawmakers block trial for president
The Latest: Brazilian lawmakers block trial for president
Updated 5:52 pm, Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Photo: Andre Penner, AP
IMAGE 1 OF 2 Activists from the Homeless Workers Movement protest against Brazil's President Michel Temer and the government's budget cuts affecting low-income housing programs, while the lower house in Brasilia votes on whether to suspend President Temer and put him on trial over an alleged bribery scheme, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017. This is the second time Temer faces such a vote and is one more in a litany of scandals that have dogged his presidency since he replaced President Dilma Rousseff, who was impeached and removed from office last year.
SAO PAULO (AP) — The latest on a debate on whether Brazilian President Michel Temer should be suspended and tried on corruption charges (all times local):
8:45 p.m.
Brazilian President Michel Temer has survived a key vote in Congress on whether to put him on trial for corruption charges.
To avoid being suspended and put on trial, Temer needed the support of at least one third of the 513 deputies in the lower Chamber of Deputies. Temer reached the threshold of 171 deputies late Wednesday, about two hours into the voting. At that point,151 deputies had voted to suspend the president and put him on trial.
Temer survived a similar vote on different charges in August.
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http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/The-Latest-Brazilian-president-reported-12305604.php
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