Brazil president faces ruling on legitimacy
Brazil’s Michel Temer may already be fighting a devastating corruption scandal, but next week he faces a more immediate threat—a court ruling on whether he should even be president. The case in the Supreme Electoral Tribunal was long considered a slow-burning sideshow to the manic developments in Brazil’s corruption revelations, which have now reached the top. The case alleged that the reelection victory in 2014 of President Dilma Rousseff and then Vice President Temer was fatally tainted by illegal campaign funds and other irregularities and therefore should be annulled. In other words, if the tribunal rules against Rousseff and Temer, his mandate could be ended.