Brazilian president plays down charges against cabinet members
Source: Xinhua
Brazilian president plays down charges against cabinet members
Source: Xinhua 2016-10-19 13:03:21
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian President Michel Temer played down on Tuesday the corruption charges against several of his cabinet members.
The president, who is now on a three-day visit to Japan through Thursday, said that the charges against his ministers are minor, describing them as "simply allegations."
He said the government will wait and see whether the cases against his ministers move forward to a stage where it need to take action.
"These things need to be consolidated. If they do consolidate, then the government will see what it will do," said Temer.
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Brazil Police Crack Down on Anti-Temer Protests in Rio, Again
Activist protest against Brazil's unelected President Michel Temer and his neoliberal policies in Rio de Janeiro, Oct. 17, 2016. | Photo: AFP
Published 18 October 2016
Social movements, high school students, labor unions and working-class people have raised alarm over Temer's plan to institutionalize neoliberalism.
Riot police cracked down and fired tear gas on thousands of protesters in central Rio de Janeiro Monday night as marches flooded the streets to reject unelected President Michel Temer’s proposed 20-year freeze on public spending that critics argue will spell disaster in the cash-strapped country.
The protests, which also rocked other cities, are the latest in a wave of massive demonstrations led by social movements and labor unions that have criticized the “parliamentary coup” against ousted President Dilma Rousseff and the austerity policies Temer’s government is swiftly rolling out without a popular mandate.
The most recent march in Rio de Janeiro brought an estimated 5,000 people to the streets, according to Reuters sources, and took aim at the hotly controversial economic reforms Brazilian economists have dubbed “permanent austerity” and “shock therapy.” Known as PEC 241, the Portuguese acronym for Proposed Constitutional Amendment, the pending proposal would cap public expenditures in line with inflation until 2037.
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