“There was no injury. When did the story of the so-called prosecution source start? [contra Dilma Rousseff] In the House of Representatives, I came to Sao Paulo and stayed in my office for several weeks for a reason that I know exists, which is that the deputy is always suspicious,” Tamer stated in an interview with the Uol news portal.
“There was no coup, what happened was a commitment to the Federal Constitution. Just read there, she says, that if the president goes down, the vice president assumes, point one. Point two, I want to say that the former president, sometimes they talk about corruption, it’s A lie. It is true. I know, from what I can follow, that there is nothing that can direct it to corruption. Lee [Dilma Rousseff] “It is very honest,” he added.
In the interview, Temer – whom Rousseff and her supporters called a coup during the impeachment process based on alleged financial irregularities in the Department of Social Programs, a charge the Brazilian judiciary has declared innocent – said the former president had politicians’ problems with Congress.
There were political problems. Is he there [Dilma Rousseff] He had difficulties in the relationship with the National Congress, had difficulties in the relationship with the community and had so-called “pedaladas” [manobra fiscal que consiste no atrasos de envio de dinheiro a bancos públicos referentes ao pagamento de benefícios de programas sociais]Tamer said.
“It is this combination of factors that led to the crowds taking to the streets. Who ousted the president in his ‘impeachment’? [destituição]Not the National Congress. The former president added that it is the people in the streets who influence the National Congress.
Temer indicated that he responded to Dilma Rousseff’s request to have a dialogue with Congress before the impeachment process and stressed that he “did not participate in anything and it was not even a parliamentary coup because [o processo de destituição] He was deported by Congress.”
At the time of Dilma Rousseff’s dismissal, Brazil was the scene of large protests against the government and against politicians and businessmen implicated in the corruption scandals investigated by Operation Lava Jato, which brought millions of people onto the streets as well as smaller groups of former supporters. – The president who defended the permanence of his position in the government.
In 2019, Michel Temer himself was arrested twice, accused of corruption in the Lava Jato investigation that exposed a vast network of corruption in the state oil company Petrobras and other public companies in the country.
Temer was accused of taking bribes from companies that won contracts in the consortium that won the tender for the Angra 3 unit, part of the Almirante Alvaro Alberto nuclear power plant, in Rio de Janeiro, and also of receiving undue benefits due to a port district decree, the charge of which he was found not guilty. .
Last June, the Federal District Court for District One decided to maintain dismissal of the complaint against the former president and seven others investigated in the decontamination process, which included alleged irregularities in contracts signed to build the Angra 3 nuclear power company.
