SAO PAULO
Tens of
thousands took to Brazilian streets Sunday to support sacked leader
Dilma Rousseff and ...
protest the new government of Michel Temer, who has taken power and downplayed the protests.
protest the new government of Michel Temer, who has taken power and downplayed the protests.
Demonstration
organisers — who have rejected Temer's ascendancy as a "coup" — said
some 100,000 protestors filled the major artery Paulista Avenue, many
holding banners that read "Out with Temer!" and "Direct elections now!"
The
Senate voted Wednesday to convict Rousseff on charges of having
illegally manipulated government accounts, stripping her of her office
and replacing her with Temer, her bitter enemy and former vice
president.
The protest ended with clashes between demonstrators and police, who fired gas bombs, according to the news website G1.
DISMISSED PROTESTS
Temer,
who after being sworn in promptly travelled to China for the G20
summit, said the protests were done by "small groups and predators."
"These are small groups ... I don't have it numerically, but they are 40, 50, 100 people.
“It's nothing more than that. Out of 204 million Brazilians, I don't think it means much," media outlets quoted Temer as saying.
The
opposition dismissed the president's figures: "The coup president of
Brazil said that our demonstration would have 40 people. Here are those
40 people — we're already almost 100,000 on Paulista Avenue," said
Guilherme Boulos, a member of one of the opposition groups that
organized the protest.
The demonstration was held in
the late afternoon so as not to interfere with the passing of the torch
from the Paralympic Games, a Rio event due to start within three days —
where another 2,000 people had demonstrated.
Rousseff was Brazil's first woman president
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