Michel Temer took office after the impeachment and removal from office of his predecessor Dilma Rousseff.
44 Facts About Michel Temer
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Michel Temer had been the 24th vice president of Brazil since 2011 and acting president since 12 May 2016, when Rousseff's powers and duties were suspended pending an impeachment trial.
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Michel Temer signaled his intention to overhaul the pension system and labor laws, and to curb public spending.
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Michel Temer did not stand for President in the 2018 Brazilian general election and was succeeded by Jair Bolsonaro.
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Michel Temer is not fluent in Arabic, but is able to discern the topic of a conversation in that language.
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In 1962, Michel Temer ran for the presidency of the union, but was defeated by 82 votes.
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Michel Temer has often confirmed his affiliation as a Roman Catholic.
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In 1968, Michel Temer began teaching constitutional law at PUC-SP, where he 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-American Institute of Constitutional Law.
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Michel Temer said writing poems helped him recover from the "barren arena of legislative politics".
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Michel Temer was a member of the 1988 constituent assembly, which promulgated the current Constitution of Brazil.
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Michel Temer became President of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, the largest party in Brazil.
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Michel Temer was the second Vice President of Lebanese origin, after Jose Maria Alkmin.
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Michel Temer was under investigation for accepting more than $1.5 million in funds from construction company Camargo Correa, which works with Petrobras.
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The numbers next to his name added up to $345,000, which authorities alleged were bribes and which Michel Temer said were legal campaign contributions.
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The claim was dismissed by the courts, and Michel Temer denied any wrongdoing.
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Michel Temer has been accused of electoral fraud; in 2016, he allegedly solicited $2.9m in illegal campaign donations in 2014.
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In 2018, Brazilian Supreme Court Justice ordered Michel Temer be included in an ongoing investigation into $3.07 million in illicit funds his Brazilian Democratic Party allegedly received from construction firm Odebrecht.
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Michel Temer is described as gaining the loyalty of lower class Brazilians by strengthening social programs and opposing Lula da Silva.
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In 2015 and 2016, Michel Temer was involved in controversy as Dilma Rousseff's impeachment process unfolded.
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In December 2015, Michel Temer sent a letter to the president complaining about his distance from government decisions.
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Michel Temer described the communication as a "personal" unburdening about various complaints against the president.
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Michel Temer said Rousseff had made him look like a "decorative" vice president, not an active one, despite having been invited to support her government several times in the dialogue with Congress, a role he only accepted in 2015.
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Michel Temer alleged it was sent incorrectly to a WhatsApp group of his party's representatives in Congress.
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In December 2015, impeachment proceedings toward Michel Temer were filed, though his fellow party member, President of the Chamber of Deputies Eduardo Cunha, blocked the movement and instead allowed impeachment proceedings against President Rousseff.
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Cunha, who was third in line for the presidency behind Michel Temer, faced scrutiny for alleged money laundering uncovered in Operation Car Wash.
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Per the Brazilian Constitution, Rousseff's powers were suspended and Michel Temer became acting president.
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Michel Temer was to serve as acting president for up to 180 days while the Senate decided whether to convict Rousseff and remove her from office, which would make Michel Temer president for the remainder of her term, or to acquit her of crimes of responsibility charges and restore her presidential powers.
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Michel Temer was awaiting a decision from the Supreme Federal Court to start an impeachment process against him.
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On his first day as acting president, Vice President Michel Temer appointed a new cabinet, reducing the number of ministries from 32 to 23.
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On 2 June 2016, Michel Temer received an eight-year ban from running for office after being convicted of violating election laws.
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Michel Temer would serve out the balance of Rousseff's second term, which finished on 31 December 2018.
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Michel Temer denied the corruption allegations but admitted talking to Calero about the project.
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In March 2017, Michel Temer decided to move to the vice presidential residence again.
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Michel Temer had recent problems with the Brazilian Historical Heritage Institute due to the architectural changes he made to the Presidential Palace.
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On 16 February 2018, Michel Temer signed a law aimed at tackling the organised crime element in Rio de Janeiro, transferring full control of security to the military.
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The next day, Michel Temer suggested establishing a Ministry of Public Security in the near future.
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Overwhelmed by protests, Michel Temer deployed federal troops to the capital.
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Former Odebrecht Vice President Marcio Faria da Silva said in testimony given as part of a plea bargain that Michel Temer asked him at a meeting to arrange a $40 million payment to Michel Temer's party, the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party.
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On 26 June 2017, Michel Temer was charged by Prosecutor-General Rodrigo Janot with accepting bribes and Janot delivered the charges to the Supreme Federal Court.
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At the time, Michel Temer still had the support of speaker of the lower house Rodrigo Maia, who possessed the power to accept or shelve a petition for impeachment.
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The Federal Police, who were forced by funding restrictions to disband before all investigations into the matter were complete, had recommended that Michel Temer be charged with obstruction of justice.
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Observers stated that the move to shield Michel Temer further undermined the credibility of Brazil's political and electoral system.
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On 21 March 2019, Michel Temer was arrested during the investigation into Operation Car Wash.
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On 22 August 2017, Michel Temer issued a decree to dissolve the "Reserva Nacional do Cobre e Associados" Amazonian reserve in Brazil's northern states of Para and Amapa, measuring 4 million hectares to allow mining by private companies and the conversion of forest into crops for agro-business companies.