{"id":20878,"date":"2016-06-04T10:20:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T15:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20878"},"modified":"2016-06-04T10:20:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T15:20:12","slug":"credibility-of-brazils-interim-president-collapses-as-he-receives-8-year-ban-on-running-for-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20878","title":{"rendered":"Credibility of Brazil\u2019s Interim President Collapses as He Receives 8-Year Ban on Running for Office"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Credibility of Brazil\u2019s Interim President Collapses as He Receives 8-Year Ban on Running for Office<\/a><\/h3>\n
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IT HAS BEEN\u00a0obvious from the start that a\u00a0core objective of the\u00a0impeachment of Brazil\u2019s elected president, Dilma Rousseff, was to empower the actual thieves in Brasilia and enable them to impede, obstruct, and ultimately kill the ongoing Car Wash investigation (as well as to impose a\u00a0neoliberal agenda of privatization<\/a>and\u00a0radical austerity<\/a>). A mere 20 days into the seizure of power by the corruption-implicated \u201cinterim\u201d President Michel Temer, overwhelming\u00a0evidence has emerged proving that to be true: Already, two of the interim ministers in\u00a0Temer\u2019s all-white-male cabinet<\/a>, including his anti-corruption minister, have been\u00a0forced to resign<\/a>\u00a0after the emergence of secret recordings showing them plotting to obstruct that\u00a0investigation (an investigation in which they, along with one-third of his cabinet, are personally implicated).<\/p>\n

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But the oozing corruption of Temer\u2019s ministers has sometimes served to obscure his own. He, too, is\u00a0implicated in several corruption investigations<\/a>.\u00a0And now, he has been formally convicted of violating election laws and, as punishment, is\u00a0banned from running for any political office<\/em>\u00a0for eight years. Yesterday, a regional election court in S\u00e3o Paulo, where he\u2019s from,\u00a0issued a formal decree<\/a>\u00a0finding him guilty and declaring him \u201cineligible\u201d to run for any political office as a result of now having a \u201cdirty record\u201d in elections. Temer was found guilty\u00a0of spending his own funds on his campaign in excess of what the law permits.<\/p>\n

In the scope of the scheming, corruption, and illegality\u00a0from this interim government, Temer\u2019s law-breaking is not the most severe offense. But it potently symbolizes the anti-democratic scam that Brazilian elites have attempted to perpetrate. In the name of corruption, they have removed the country\u2019s democratically elected leader and replaced her with someone who \u2014 though not legally barred from being\u00a0installed<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 is now barred for eight years from running for the office he wants to occupy.<\/p>\n

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Credibility of Brazil\u2019s Interim President Collapses as He Receives 8-Year Ban on Running for Office (Para ler a vers\u00e3o desse artigo em Portugu\u00eas,\u00a0clique aqui.) IT HAS BEEN\u00a0obvious from the start that a\u00a0core objective of the\u00a0impeachment of Brazil\u2019s elected president, Dilma Rousseff, was to empower the actual thieves in Brasilia and enable them to impede, obstruct, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5437],"class_list":["post-20878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-glenn-greenwald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20879,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20878\/revisions\/20879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}