The Great Brazil Topic

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The Brazilian middle class is very different from the Turkish middle class. In fact they're almost exactly the opposite politically.

In Turkey, they're left-wing, in Brazil they're right wing.

Although the people protesting in Brazil may actually be the children of the middle class who are themselves poorer and more leftist.

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Who becomes president when Dilma is impeached?

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but the PMDB is also implicated in corruption? Is the VP himself clean? Could they try to impeach him too? Could there be early elections?

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I see Ciro Gomes has switched parties yet again, to the PDT. Amusingly, the same party as his Senator ex-wife. Did PROS stop existing?

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Explain what's happening in the Ciro Gomes video?

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Wow, I'm surprised she still has any allied parties. Except maybe the Communists.

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What is Collor stance on this? (given how his own administration ended.)

Collor voted to remove from office.

Meanwhile, Senator Lindbergh Farias of the PT, who led the movement to impeach Collor as leader of the national student union in the 80s, voted not to impeach. A lot of people are noting the irony.

Also interesting about Collor, he's switched parties again. He's in the Christian Labor Party, which is actually organizationally descended from the party he led when he was president. He was previously a member of the Brazilian Labor Party and the Brazilian Labor Renewal Party.