House Leader Urges Biggest Brazil Party to Abandon Rousseff
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Brazilian lower house President Eduardo Cunha urged his party, the biggest in the country, to abandon the ruling coalition. The real fell.
Cunha’s Democratic Movement Party has so far been key to preventing the political crisis engulfing President Dilma Rousseff from spiraling out of control. Vice President Michel Temer, who is also the leader of the PMDB, as the party is known, has taken the lead in negotiating support for the government’s economic recovery plan.