Avenida Paulista alone at 135,000. Both figures represent a fall on March’s protests, though more than in April. But people power may be of less immediate concern to President Dilma Rousseff than her alliances with politicians. After investing effort in charming Renan Calheiros, the president of the federal senate, and seeing her most powerful opponent, Eduardo Cunha, the president of the federal lower chamber of congress, face charges from the federal public ministry, Rousseff may feel the pressure is off, at least for the time being.
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