Calming Post-Impeachment Brazil Takes Time, Says New President
- Temer calls anti-government protests isolated, undemocratic
- Temer took office with impeachment of predecessor Rousseff
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Brazil’s President Michel Temer said it will take time to bring calm to his country following the ouster of his predecessor and described street protests against his government as isolated and undemocratic.
The rallies "are normal during a complicated political moment as was the impeachment," Temer told reporters in Hangzhou, China, on the eve of the G-20 leaders’ summit. "Pacification on the first day is absolutely impossible.”