Unelected
President Michel Temer was greeted with shouts of "Out with
Temer" upon his first public appearance in Brazil since being
installed in office
Tens of thousands of demonstrators
took to the streets Wednesday in over a dozen Brazilian cities for a
national day of action dubbed the “Cry of the Excluded” to
protest the country’s unelected government as President Michel
Temer made his first public appearance one week after being installed
in office.
Coinciding with Brazil’s
independence and marked by shouts of slogans like “Out with Temer,”
the marches protested the rollback in social programs and protection
of human rights expected under the newly-inaugurated conservative
government, which already began to implement an aggressive neoliberal
agenda during its “interim” three months in office.
“This Sept. 7 is quite different
because the people are living a coup,” Silvana Conti, a candidate
with the Communist Party of Brazil in Porto Alegre, said in a
statement, using the widely-repeated criticism of the impeachment
process against ousted President Dilma Rousseff as a parliamentary
coup. “It is important that the Brazilian people show that they are
not accepting an illegitimate government and will not leave the
streets until a return to democracy.”
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