Leaked Brazil Tape Shows VP Temer Practicing Unity Address

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April 11, 2016, 3:56 PM EDT Updated on April 11, 2016, 4:29 PM EDT

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Michel Temer speaks during an interview in New York, on April 3, 2014.
Photographer: Jin Lee/Bloomberg

Brazil’s impeachment saga took a bizarre twist on Monday after Vice President Michel Temer released a tape in which he discusses the outlines of a Temer administration in the event that Dilma Rousseff loses a crucial impeachment vote this weekend.

As lawmakers in Brasilia weigh up the case against Rousseff, Temer’s office said the audio was sent to a group of lawmakers by accident.