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Weekly Report - 08 June 2017 (WR-17-22)

BRAZIL: Trial over electoral wrongdoing resumes

“Choosing money over power is a mistake almost everyone makes,” read a Netflix billboard spotted in Brasília airport earlier this week. The quote comes from US political drama House of Cards, but aptly describes the predicament of President Michel Temer and his predecessor Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016), who are currently on trial for receiving illicit donations. The twists and turns of Brazilian politics make it difficult for script writers to keep up, joked Netflix on their Brazilian Twitter account. But in the absence of an official timetable for when a ruling will come, no one knows how Brazil’s latest political drama will play out.

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