At the centre of the impeachment crisis is the PMDB party,which after decades in the background has been making a play for its own claim to the throne
For 25 years, Brazil’s biggest political party has made and broken governments, and patiently profiting from patronage without ever taking an ideological stance or an overt leadership role.
But with the country now in the midst of a political and economic crisis they helped to precipitate,elements in the king-making Brazilian Democratic Movement party are finally pushing their own claim to the throne.
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Source: theguardian.com