Brazil court meets to rule on whether Temer election is valid
Brasília — Brazil’s Supreme Electoral Court met on Tuesday on whether to invalidate the 2014 presidential election because of illegal campaign funding — a ruling that could, in theory, force out President Michel Temer. Sessions were scheduled over three days, with a final vote by the panel of judges on Thursday. However, analysts say there is a high chance that the procedure will be put on hold, staving off the judgment day. At issue are allegations that when then-president Dilma Rousseff ran for re-election in 2014, with Temer as vice-president, their ticket was financed by undeclared funds or bribes. The leftist Rousseff was herself removed from office last year in an impeachment vote on an unrelated matter, shifting Temer, her conservative coalition partner, to the top seat. Both Temer and Rousseff deny any wrongdoing. If the court, known as the TSE, rules that the election was fatally compromised by suspect donations, Temer could find his presidency declared invalid. That could ...
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