{"id":327050,"date":"2017-06-10T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=327050"},"modified":"2017-06-10T12:00:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:00:51","slug":"court-rules-in-favour-of-brazil-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/court-rules-in-favour-of-brazil-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Court rules in favour of Brazil leader"},"content":{"rendered":"
Brazil’s President Michel Temer has been acquitted of irregularities in the 2014 election, a ruling which allows him to stay in office.<\/p>\n
By four votes to three, the Superior Electoral Court rejected claims that illegal money was used in the campaign.<\/p>\n
If found guilty, Mr Temer could have been forced out of the presidency.<\/p>\n
The accusations referred to the vote won by Dilma Rousseff with Mr Temer as her running mate. He replaced her when she was impeached last year.<\/p>\n
What were the accusations?<\/strong><\/p>\n The court looked at whether the Rousseff-Temer presidential campaign in 2014 should have been invalidated because of illegal campaign donations.<\/p>\n Judge Herman Benjamin, the investigator in the case, voted for their conviction, saying that a system of undeclared donations and bribes favoured them in the election.<\/p>\n