Brazilian President Michel Temer survived a vote in Brazil’s lower house of Congress Wednesday that could have seen him removed from office over corruption charges. Lawmakers voted 263-227 to keep Temer in power, as opposition lawmakers chanted, waved briefcases stuffed with fake money and traded punches with the president’s supporters. Temer remains in power despite a single-digit approval rating, and even though a secretly recorded tape captured him approving hush-money payoffs for a powerful politician jailed on corruption charges.
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