Implode-o-Meter News - Brazil: Temer moves from the shadows to the spotlight

Despite keeping a low profile, Temer has been politically active for over three decades - mostly pulling the strings in the background. And now, after pulling the plug on the coalition between his Brazililan Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) and Rousseff's Workers' Party (PT) in December, Temer has slipped into the interim leadership of a country with 200 million inhabitants... Temer's political profile is hard to define. One reason for that is his party's consistently wavering ideology. The PMBD is primarily backed by lobbyists in the arms, banking and agricultural sectors - and even supported by Evangelical lobbyists.
With Brazil having plunged into its deepest economic slump in decades, Temer will likely focus on growth. "We want to reduce unemployment," he has said. More than 11 million people have no job. The news channel CNN reported that Temer is more popular on Wall Street than among Brazilians. "He will follow economic policies that are good for the market and international investors," the political scientist Kenkel said, "but bad for the social classes that have benefited from the political line of the previous government."

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Brazil: Temer moves from the shadows to the spotlight