Brazil's Vice President Michel Temer gestures as he attends an Economic Forum in Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 31, 2015. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Vice President Michel Temer said on Tuesday he is not seeking to run for president in 2018, but his PMDB party is keen to launch its own candidate and has released a pro-business economic agenda as its platform.
The PMDB, the largest party in Brazil's ruling coalition, has clashed repeatedly with President Dilma Rousseff and her leftist Worker's Party this year over the handling of the sharpest recession in 25 years, and plans to leave her government before the 2018 campaign.
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