A demonstrator, holding a sign with a message that reads in Portuguese; "Temer out", takes part in a rally in support of Brazil's suspended President Dilma Rousseff in Sao Paulo. June 10, 2016. AP Photo/Andre Penner
After reaching its peak during the days preceding the decision of the Brazilian Senate to preliminarily push aside Dilma Rousseff on May 12, 2016, the "counter-coup"movement that had presented the president as a victim lost momentum. Today, it is maintained for convenience. The slogans "Temer out" and "I do not recognise the coup government" were used with the aim to damage and delegitimise the interim government that took power while the Senate deliberates over the Dilma impeachment, but they didn't manage to inspire public debate or political life. The movement wasn't based on realistic analysis and trivialised the idea of the "coup", emptying it of meaning. Their slogans began to take on the sole purpose of acting as background music for some acts of protest and meetings to write up demands.
Gradually, Brazilian public opinion, the country's politicians and even the parties that comprised Dilma Rousseff's government - starting with the PT - were bowing to circumstance and to political reality, which are setting another course for and perspective towards the country's democratic governance and political institutionality.
