BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazilian President Michel Temer was set back Sunday in his effort to fend off allegations of corruption and cover-up after the country’s influential bar association voted in favor of his impeachment.
The council of Brazil’s Order of Lawyers voted 25-1 in favor of an impeachment hearing, and will file its request in the lower house of Congress in coming days, it said Sunday. The council said Temer did not denounce criminal activities, broke with presidential decorum and promised favors to individuals.
“We are going to ask for the impeachment of another president of the republic, the second in a year and four months,” council president Claudio Lamachia said in a statement. Temer’s predecessor, Dilma Rousseff, was impeached and removed from office last year.
Temer attempted in a televised speech Saturday to discredit evidence that Prosecutor General Rodrigo Janot said shows the president engaging in a cover-up and possibly passive corruption.
