{"id":853,"date":"2017-08-03T02:11:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T00:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/08\/03\/brazils-president-keeps-job-as-congress-votes-against-corruption-charges\/"},"modified":"2017-08-03T02:11:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T00:11:40","slug":"brazils-president-keeps-job-as-congress-votes-against-corruption-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=853","title":{"rendered":"Brazil&#039;s president keeps job as congress votes against corruption charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers overwhelmingly oppose charges for Michel Temer despite broad popular support, as observers condemn \u2018bankruptcy of political system\u2019The credibility of Brazil\u2019s congress has been left in rags after its lower house overwhelmingly voted not to approve corruption charges against the president, Michel Temer \u2013 even though 81% of his countrymen said in a recent poll that they should.Temer was charged with corruption after a close aide was given $150,000 in cash \u2013 part of $12m in bribes prosecutors allege he and the aide were due to receive after intervening in a business deal. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/aug\/03\/brazil-michel-temer-president-corruption-charges-vote\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil&#039;s president keeps job as congress votes against corruption charges<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers overwhelmingly oppose charges for Michel Temer despite broad popular support, as observers condemn \u2018bankruptcy of political system\u2019The credibility of Brazil\u2019s congress has been left in rags after its lower house overwhelmingly voted not to approve corruption charges against the president, Michel Temer \u2013 even though 81% of his countrymen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}