Brazil's President Michel Temer has been acquitted of irregularities in the 2014 election, a ruling which allows him to stay in office. By four votes to three, the Superior Electoral Court rejected claims that illegal money was used in the campaign. The accusations referred to the vote won by Dilma Rousseff with Mr Temer as her running mate. He replaced her when she was impeached last year. <br/><br/>The court looked at whether the Rousseff-Temer Presidential campaign in 2014 should have been invalidated because of illegal campaign donations. Judge Herman Benjamin, the rapporteur of the case, voted for their conviction, saying that a system of undeclared donations and bribes favoured them in the election. He said they were both guilty of abuse of economic and political power.<br/><br/>But four other judges voted against him, some saying that the evidence presented was not enough to prove that the illegal money that went to the political parties was used in the campaign.