MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Brazil will hold general elections in October 2018.
"With the help of all, I want to put the country back on track in these two years and seven months," Temer told the Epoca magazine in an interview Friday.
President Dilma Rousseff has been facing a wave of public discontent for over a year amid the country’s struggling economy and a major corruption scandal in Petrobras.
The upper house of the Brazilian parliament voted 55-22 on Thursday to start impeachment proceedings against Rousseff after she was accused of concealing the country’s budget deficit ahead of the 2014 re-election. Rousseff called the impeachment "a coup." The 68-year-old has been suspended from office for 180 days, pending the trial. Temer assumed presidency during that period.