--- title: Michel Temer: Five Things to Know About Brazil's President description: Temer has been running Brazil since Rousseff's suspension in May, and he is set to continue as president until the next election in 2018 canonical: https://time.com/4475593/five-things-to-know-about-brazils-new-president-michel-temer/ author: Kate Samuelson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-01T15:53:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-31T10:06:36.640Z article:section: World og:title: Five Things to Know About Brazil's President, Michel Temer og:description: Temer has been running Brazil since Dilma Rousseff's suspension in May og:url: https://time.com/4475593/five-things-to-know-about-brazils-new-president-michel-temer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1fbaddc9e364a5e2/6988a4828e0601790946751e/ap_609391309926.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: BRAZIL-BRASILIA-TEMER-SWEAR IN og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Five Things to Know About Brazil's President, Michel Temer twitter:description: Temer has been running Brazil since Dilma Rousseff's suspension in May twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1fbaddc9e364a5e2/6988a4828e0601790946751e/ap_609391309926.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Five Things to Know About Brazil's New President, Michel Temer > Sponsored content. 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Suspended President Dilma Rousseff says Brazil is prepared to host the Olympics which begin August 5th._ by [Kate Samuelson](https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/) ## Kate Samuelson Sep 1, 2016 3:53 PM UTC  Michel Temer (L) shakes hands with Brazilian Senate President Renan Calheiros during his swear-in ceremony as President of Brazil in Brasilia, Brazil, Aug. 31, 2016. Michel Temer (L) shakes hands with Brazilian Senate President Renan Calheiros during his swear-in ceremony as President of Brazil in Brasilia, Brazil, Aug. 31, 2016.Xinhua—Xinhua/Sipa USA by [Kate Samuelson](https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/) ## Kate Samuelson Sep 1, 2016 3:53 PM UTC [Dilma Rousseff](http://time.com/4433320/brazil-dilma-rousseff-impeachment-olympics/), Brazil’s first female president, was thrown out of office by the country’s senate on Wednesday following after an [ impeachment trial](http://time.com/4426359/q-and-a-dilma-rousseff-olympics-zika-impeachment/) that ended the leftist Workers’ Party 13 years in power. She has been replaced by her former vice president and coalition partner [Michel Temer](http://time.com/4303061/michel-temer-brazil-impeachment/) of the centrist Democratic Movement party (PMDB). Temer has been running Brazil since Rousseff’s suspension in May, and is set to continue as president until the next election in 2018\. Here are five things we know about the 75-year-old: **1\. He is “nearly the opposite” of Rousseff** Temer, who has been elected to Congress four times, is [“nearly the opposite” of Rousseff](http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21698719-michel-temer-has-better-ideas-dilma-rousseff-does-not-mean-he-will-be-successful) in terms of his political views and experience, according to _The_ _Economist_. The magazine [described him as a multitalented politician](http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21698719-michel-temer-has-better-ideas-dilma-rousseff-does-not-mean-he-will-be-successful); a charming, elegant and conciliatory man who believes in a “blend of economic and social liberalism that is unusual in Brazil.” An example of this is his belief that abortion should be legal, which is at odds with the view of most of Brazil, which has some of the toughest abortion laws in the world. Temer has a reputation for being a successful dealmaker and he has helped the PMDB form coalitions with every president in the past two decades. This has led the _BBC_ to describe Temer in the past [as “always a kingmaker, but never king.”](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-36070366) **2\. But l** **ike Rousseff, he has been accused of corruption** Temer is not free from scandal; he’s currently being investigated for receiving an illicit $400,000 campaign donation in 2012 from the state oil company Petrobras. This has implicated him in the country’s biggest ever corruption scandal, known as “Operation Car Wash,” which has led to the jailing of dozens of executives and politicians and contributed to Brazil’s worst recession in decades. Sergio Machado, a former Petrobras executive who has been giving evidence to prosecutors as part of a plea bargain, said Temer asked him for illegal campaign contributions for a political ally. The President has denied doing this. **3\. He is pretty unpopular in Brazil** A poll in April by Brazil’s _Folha de S.Paulo_ newspaper found that 60% of respondents supported Rousseff’s ouster, and 58% wanted to get rid of Temer too, [_USA_ ](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/08/31/brazil-new-president-michel-temer/89652048/)[_Today_ ](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/08/31/brazil-new-president-michel-temer/89652048/)reports. His unpopularity is partly to do with his implication in Operation Car Wash, but it hasn’t been helped by his controversial decision to create a cabinet made up solely of white men in a country where 53% of citizens are mixed race and 52% are female. It is Brazil’s first all-male cabinet since the end of the military dictatorship in 1985. **4\. His wife is a 33-year-old former beauty queen** Temer’s wife of 13 years, Marcela Temer, is former Miss São Paulo and more than 40 years his junior. She has been criticized by media outlets for her ‘Marie Antoinette’ spending during times of Brazil’s economic uncertainty, with [_MailOnline_](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3592502/New-York-shopping-trips-two-maids-racy-Playboy-photo-shoot-Brazil-s-new-lady-freeloading-family-attacked-Marie-Antoinette-spending-country-s-economy-crumbles-ahead-Rio-Olympics.html) reporting that she has a nanny, a cook and two maids, as well as her mother and sister, to help her look after her only son, Michelzinho, who is seven. Marcela has her husband’s name tattooed on the back of her neck, which was first spotted in 2011\. She recently appeared on the cover of the conservative magazine Veja where she was described as “_Bela, recatada e do lar_” (Beautiful, demure and homely). **5\. He is a keen poet, to the amusement of some Brazilians** Temer is the author of a book of poems, titled _Anonymous Intimacy_, as well as a textbook on constitutional law. According to the [_New York Times_](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/world/americas/brazil-michel-temer-poet.html?%5Fr=0), the president began writing poetry when he found himself jotting his thoughts on cocktail napkins in airport lounges when working as a lawmaker a few years ago. He has mused on the themes of letter-writing in the text-messaging era, lust and radicalism – the latter being a one line poem that simply read “No. Never again!” Temer’s poetry has not been particularly well received in Brazil and there is even a [Twitter account](https://twitter.com/temerpoeta) with over 33,000 followers that frequently mocks the president’s creative expressions. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4475593/five-things-to-know-about-brazils-new-president-michel-temer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4475593/five-things-to-know-about-brazils-new-president-michel-temer/"},"headline":"Five Things to Know About Brazil's New President, Michel Temer","datePublished":"2016-09-01T15:53:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T10:06:36.640Z","description":"Keen poet Temer has been running Brazil since Rousseff's suspension in May","url":"https://time.com/4475593/five-things-to-know-about-brazils-new-president-michel-temer/","keywords":["brazil"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1fbaddc9e364a5e2/6988a4828e0601790946751e/ap_609391309926.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kate Samuelson","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1fbaddc9e364a5e2/6988a4828e0601790946751e/ap_609391309926.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"BRAZIL-BRASILIA-TEMER-SWEAR IN","caption":"BRAZIL-BRASILIA-TEMER-SWEAR IN","creditText":"Xinhua—Xinhua/Sipa USA","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/brazil/","name":"brazil"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4475593/five-things-to-know-about-brazils-new-president-michel-temer/","name":"Five Things to Know About Brazil's New President, Michel Temer"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"An Interview with Dilma Rousseff","description":"Suspended President Dilma Rousseff says Brazil is prepared to host the Olympics which begin August 5th.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/dinzzox2/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-07-27T17:15:56.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/dinzzox2.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4475593/five-things-to-know-about-brazils-new-president-michel-temer/","duration":"PT3M5S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4475593/five-things-to-know-about-brazils-new-president-michel-temer/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```