Bricklayer: Temer spent R$ 32 billion to lose 18 votes.
"Temer hasn't finished only because he still has something to sell. But Maia, right after the vote, was already presenting his 'economic program': pension reform with a minimum retirement age, the end of the profit-sharing law, and the return of the oil field concession system," says Fernando Brito, editor of Tijolaço.
By Fernando Brito, editor of brick
First accusation, vote: 263 votes against removing Temer, 227 against. Difference of 36 votes in favor of the usurper.
Second accusation, vote: 251 votes for Temer, 233 against Temer. Difference of 18 votes.
The math is quite simple: if Michel Temer spent 32 billion reais buying votes to avoid being investigated, then he spent 32 billion reais to lose 18 votes.
He didn't even get the 257 votes needed for a simple majority.
Temer's kidney stone, painful as it was, hurt less than his electoral calculus.
He is not in a position to propose anything to the Chamber.
Even some of his voters have declared their opposition to the pension reform, which "only" needs 308 votes.
In other words, it doesn't exist, not even in a dream.
As Pyrrhus, the King of Epirus in Greece, said, "One more victory like this, and we will be destroyed."
Temer hasn't finished only because he still has things to sell.
But Maia, right after the vote, was already presenting his "economic program": pension reform with a minimum retirement age, the end of the profit-sharing law, and a return to the concession system for oil fields.
It's no coincidence that so many people on the right wanted Temer to fall, to put the devil in the place of the "evil one".