Brazil's interim President Michel Temer looks on during a ceremony for inauguration of the new Minister of Culture, Marcelo Calero, at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, May 24, 2016. REUTERS/Adriano Machado
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Hundreds of employees of Brazil's anti-corruption Ministry of Transparency marched to the presidential palace on Monday to demand the removal of the minister appointed 18 days ago by interim President Michel Temer.
The demonstration against Minister Fabiano Silveira was prompted by a leaked recording of a conversation three months before he was appointed in which he was heard criticizing prosecutors in the Petrobras graft investigation.
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