Institutional Crisis Marks Dispute by the Rio Government

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Rio will define the next governor in the midst of an unprecedented crisis in the state. Despite the long history of state executive chiefs imprisoned or removed, for the first time the Guanabara Palace is occupied by the president of the Court of Justice, the disembarkator Ricardo Couto, third in the succession line of the Fluminense administration. The unique situation makes this election also the first in more than three decades without a cand…