Crucial vote for president

BRAZIL’S President Michel Temer was expected to win enough support from lawmakers yesterday to survive an unprecedented vote on whether he should stand trial on corruption charges. The deeply unpopular leader is hoping to put behind a scandal that paralysed his administration to focus on passing legislation needed to end a budget crisis and help pull Brazil out of its worst recession. The vote will gauge how much political capital Temer still has to block additional charges federal prosecutors are preparing against him. His rivals need two-thirds of the votes in the chamber to approve a charge he took bribes from the world’s largest meat packer, JBS SA, and send the case to the Supreme Court. But even some of his opponents see this as a tall order. – Reuters