MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) – Police used tear gas against the protesters on Wednesday, while the demonstrators responded by throwing stones and home-made bombs at police officers, Rede Globo TV said.
#Brazil: Brutal police repression just now, in #SãoPaulo. #LutarSemTemer #ForaTemr #impeachment #GolpeEnBrasil pic.twitter.com/D0IQZb6s1e
— Nas lutas (@PersonalEscrito) August 31, 2016
The demonstrators have blocked a road with trash bags, setting them on fire.
Earlier on Wednesday, Brazil’s former vice president Michel Temer was sworn in as the country’s new leader after the Senate voted to remove Rousseff from her presidential post.
#Brazil: Thousands people anti-#Temer are marching in Paulista Avenue, #SãoPaulo. #ForaTemer #LutarSemTemer @spNabil pic.twitter.com/JSeY8tcSGQ
— Nas lutas (@PersonalEscrito) August 31, 2016
In May, the upper house of the Brazilian parliament voted 55-22 to start impeachment proceedings against Rousseff after she was accused of concealing the country’s budget deficit ahead of the 2014 election. Rousseff was suspended from office for 180 days. Michel Temer, who had been Brazil's vice president since 2011, assumed presidency during that period.
Now in Paulista Ave, after 2 days of repression in #SãoPaulo. #GolpeDeEstado #GolpeEnBrasil #ForaTemer #coup #ACAB pic.twitter.com/tQ2NJ0yzYj
— Nas lutas (@PersonalEscrito) August 31, 2016
Temer will now serve as Brazil's president until 2019, when new elections will take place.
