Acting Brazilian president Michel Temer’s government faced its first major crisis Monday when planning Minister Romero Juca said he would step aside starting Tuesday. This comes after a recording leaked in which Juca appears to discuss using the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff to derail a huge corruption probe. The scandal threatened Temer just 11 days after taking power from Rousseff, who was suspended from the presidency on May 12 by the Senate for the start of an impeachment trial on charges of breaking government accounting rules.
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