Brasilia Aug 3 (IANS) The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies voted to dismiss the corruption charges against President Michel Temer.
As a tense vote continued on Wednesday the government s allies in the Chamber received more than a third of votes or 172 out of 512 the threshold needed to dismiss the charges Xinhua news agency reported.
This means that the charges filed against Temer the first against a sitting president by prosecutor-general Rodrigo Janot will be dropped.
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