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A12 WORLD NEWS
Saturday 27 May 2017

Allies of Brazil’s president looking to future amid scandal

captures him endorsing “support the government,
hush money for a former support Brazil” so austerity
lawmaker serving a 15-year measures and unpopular
prison sentence. Temer de- reforms get through Con-
nies wrongdoing and has gress.
vowed not to resign. Speaking Thursday night,
If he resigns or is forced out, Jereissati declined to give
Congress would vote on open support for Temer re-
a new leader to finish the maining in office. Howev-
term, which goes through er, he said the embattled
2018. leader would be consulted
On both Thursday and Fri- in case he is pushed out
day, leaders of the right- and there is an election.
leaning Brazilian Social Jereissati was appointed
Democracy Party, a junior party chairman after his
partner in Temer’s gov- predecessor, Sen. Aecio
erning coalition, skipped Neves, was engulfed in
chances to support Temer the same corruption inves-
and instead talked about tigation. Jereissati said his
what might come next. party will decide whether
Sao Paulo state Gov. Ger- to break away from Te-
aldo Alckmin said Friday mer after the country’s
that former President Fer- top electoral court rules
Brazil’s President Michel Temer attends a cabinet meeting, in Brasilia, Brazil, Friday, May 26, 2017. nando Henrique Cardoso on whether the 2014 cam-
Brazil’s president has canceled an order that sent soldiers into the streets of the capital, following and Sen. Tasso Jereissati paign of Rousseff and Te-
criticism that the move was excessive and merely an effort to maintain power amid increasing would be good candi- mer received illegal financ-
calls for his resignation. The troops had been deployed late Wednesday following a day of clash-
es between police and protesters demanding that Temer be ousted amid allegations against him dates to replace Temer if ing. A ruling is expected in
of corruption. he should be removed. early June.
(AP Photo/Eraldo Peres) Alckmin, who himself plans Other members of the par-
to run in next year’s presi- ty in Congress have said
By MAURICIO SAVARESE dal — frank talk that under- a year ago when Presi- dential election, ruled over the week that stay-
Associated Press scores his fragile grasp on dent Dilma Rousseff was himself out for the possible ing too close to Temer now
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — power. suspended and then re- vote that might choose a could affect them in next
Key leaders in the govern- Brazil’s top prosecutor has moved for illegally manag- president and a vice presi- year’s elections.
ing coalition of embattled opened investigations into ing the federal budget. dent until December 2018. Asked whether he saw
Brazilian President Michel the president for alleged Temer’s administration has The governor, who lost himself as a possible can-
Temer are now speculating obstruction of justice and lurched from one crisis to the 2006 presidential elec- didate, Jereissati said: “I
about who might replace passive corruption. Temer, another, the latest being tion to Luiz Inacio Lula da didn’t think of it, no one
him if he is forced from of- then vice president, rose to the emergence of a re- Silva, said his party has to thought of that.” q
fice by a corruption scan- the presidency a little over cording that apparently
Mexico’s ruling party faces more hurdles to maintain power

By CHRIS SHERMAN her party’s president, An- the bleeding after the par- Obrador “an immense ad- Obrador left to form More-
Associated Press dres Manuel Lopez Obra- ty’s loss last year of four vance in his quest for the na, was a distant third and
ECATEPEC, Mexico (AP) — dor, a charismatic early governorships it had always presidency in 2018,” Acu- Josefina Vazquez Mota of
At a recent political rally favorite for a third run for held. Mexico state has long na said. But the opposition the National Action Party
in this crime-ridden Mexico Mexico’s presidency. been a key source of the vote will be shared among came in fourth. The poll sur-
City suburb, next year’s One year before Mexicans PRI’s so-called “voto duro,” several candidates, which veyed 1,200 eligible Mex-
presidential election was pick their new top leader, or hard vote — voters it can will make it difficult to over- ico state voters from May
discussed as much as the the impending gubernato- count on year after year, come the PRI’s deeply 20-23 and had a margin of
upcoming June 4 vote for rial election in Mexico state most of them from a lower rooted organization. error of three percentage
governor in the country’s is seen as a referendum on socio-economic status, less A poll released Wednesday points.
most populous state. the government of Enrique educated and many older by the newspaper El Finan- With more than 11 million
The banner stretched Pena Nieto, who was gov- than 50, said Ivonne Acuna, ciero put PRI candidate Al- voters, the state of Mexico
across the stage carried ernor here before becom- a professor in Iberoameri- fredo del Mazo ahead of has been governed by the
the face of Delfina Gomez, ing president five years ago can University’s social and Gomez by five percentage PRI for 88 years and is the
a teacher-turned-politician as the candidate of the political sciences depart- points in the gubernatorial largest potential prize of
with the leftist Morena par- Institutional Revolutionary ment. contest. Juan Zepeda of three PRI-controlled states
ty seeking the Mexico state Party, known as the PRI. A Morena victory in the the leftist Democratic Rev- holding gubernatorial rac-
governorship, and that of A PRI win here could stanch state would give Lopez olution Party, which Lopez es June 4. q