The process began with the performance of judicial decision on April 6, 2016, the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Eduardo Cunha, to form commission for termination analysis of liability for crime offered by Mariel M. Marra.
His lawyers say that he didn't benefit from any funding coming from the Workers’ Party; since, Brazil's electoral prosecutors have found “substantial evidence indicating fraud and corruption” in the Rousseff-Temer presidential campaign.
Journalists pointed that a former CEO of a construction company declared in a deposition that he donated a check of $300,000 to the Workers’ Party National Committee.
[10][11] On May 17, 2016, Justice Marco Aurélio allowed the impeachment request to enter the agenda of the Federal Supreme Court plenary session.
[16] On 9 June 2017, the Brazilian Superior Electoral Court voted 4–3 to acquit Temer of the indictment of fraud in the accounts of the With the Strength of the People coalition in the 2014 election.