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Relief for Brazil’s Temer as congressional committee rejects his graft charge

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Relief for Brazil's Temer as congressional committee rejects his graft charge

Embattled Brazilian President Michel Temer can now heave a sigh of relief after a congressional committee rejected a recommendation to try him for corruption stating that the decision to put him on trial rests with the lower house.

However, after the contentious committee vote, which occasionally descended into shouting matches, some lawmakers cried “Temer out!” and “Purchased vote!” Others responded with “Long live Temer!”

The ruling comes as victory for Temer who was slammed with corruption charges by prosecutors who accused him of receiving a $150,000 bribe from the boss of a meatpacking company implicated in a corruption scandal.

Read also: Corruption charges filed against embattled Brazilian President Temer

Recall that days after the charges were leveled against him, Temer waved it aside claiming it was a fiction.

He also accused the Prosecutor General of seeking ‘revenge, destruction and vengeance’ with the indictment.

Temer made the comments a day after the country’s top prosecutor presented a scathing indictment against him which he dismissed saying it was a “soap opera plot”.

The prosecutors “created a soap opera plot,” Temer said in a brief statement to reporters and allies, his first comments since the charge sheet was presented. “I say without fear of being wrong that the accusation is fiction.”

 

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