Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia (born September 23, 1940), better known as Michel Temer, is a Brazil

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ian lawyer

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 and politician

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, and currently the Vice-President of Brazil

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 after winning on the ticket

For Brazil to keep on changing

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 of Workers' Party

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 candidate Dilma Rousseff

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. He is also the President of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, although he is currently suspended from that office to comply with Brazilian Law

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 and to carry out his duties as Vice-President.

He previously served for six consecutive terms as Federal Deputy

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 for the state of São Paulo in the Chamber of Deputies, and on three separate occasions served two-year terms as President of the Chamber (in 1997-1998, 1999-2000 and 2009-2010). Temer was also a member of the 1988 National Constituent Assembly

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, which promulgated the current Constitution of Brazil

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Biography and career

Born in Tietê

Tietê, São Paulo

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, São Paulo state, Temer holds a doctorate in Law from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. He served as State prosecutor

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 and twice as State Secretary for Public Security, in both capacities working in São Paulo. He is a licensed professor of Constitutional Law

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 at PUC-SP, and has authored numerous books on the subject.

He has five children, including three with his first wife Maria, one resulting from a relationship with a journalist, and one more with current wife Marcela, who is 42 years his junior.

In a TV interview for the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation

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 (May 8, 2010), Temer indicated that his family originates from the city of Btaaboura

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 in Koura District

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, neighboring the city of Tripoli

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 in Northern

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 Lebanon

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. Therefore, he is the second Vice-President of Brazil

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 of Lebanese origin after José Maria Alkmin

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Temer has been the recipient of various foreign honors, including the Grand Cross of Dannebrog

Order of the Dannebrog

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, the Knighthood of the Order of Prince Henry (Grand Officer) and the Légion d'Honneur

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