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Acting Brazilian President Ready to Rule Country Until Next Elections

© AFP 2023 / EVARISTO SABrazilian acting President Michel Temer is seen during the first ministers meeting at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia
Brazilian acting President Michel Temer is seen during the first ministers meeting at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia - Sputnik International
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Acting Brazilian President Michel Temer said he was ready to head the country until the next presidential elections.

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.

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Temer outlined four priority sectors for his government – restoration of economy, reestablishing relations with the country’s Congress, finding balance in relations between the government, states and municipalities and changing the country’s political culture.

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.

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