On Friday evening the most immediate threat to Mr Temer's mandate was removed when the electoral court voted to dismiss a request that the winning ticket in the 2014 presidential election - when he was the running mate of subsequently impeached president Dilma Rousseff - be cancelled over illegal campaign financing.
Casting the deciding 4-3 vote after four days of deliberation, Gilmar Mendes, chief judge of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, said: "You don't switch the president of the republic every hour".
Brazil's top electoral court is considering whether to annul what is left of President Michel Temer's term because of allegations his 2014 campaign ticket received illegal contributions.
Temer has already survived a series of scandals and vows to remain despite the new allegations.
Temer took over from Rousseff previous year after she was impeached for violating budget laws, in what her leftist allies dubbed a coup.
People watch on a screen the session of the Superior Electoral Court, in Brasilia, Brazil, Friday, June 9, 2017.
Temer, whose approval rate is 4%, is also being investigated on allegations of approving the payment of hush money to impeached lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha, who is now serving a 15-year prison sentence for corruption, money laundering and tax evasion.
Janot, the attorney general, is considering pressing charges against him for allegedly receiving bribes, over the audio recording and for allegedly trying to obstruct the Car Wash investigation.
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He said it's important for people to realize that those who serve in Congress are real people with real families at home. A lobbyist, congressional staffer and two officers were injured during the gunfire.
Temer greeted the verdict as "a sign that the national institutions continue to guarantee the smooth functioning of Brazilian democracy", his spokesman said afterward.
But to put him on trial, the charges against the president would have to be approved by two-thirds of the lower chamber of Congress, where Temer's coalition retains a majority.
Judge Luiz Fux, who voted to remove Temer, said the campaign finance allegations were "very serious crimes".
The verdict spared recession-ravaged Brazil its second leadership crisis in 14 months, following the impeachment of leftist president Dilma Rousseff past year and her replacement by her then-vice president Temer. "This issue is sensitive because it has as its background the popular sovereignty", he said.
The approval process in Congress could be lengthy and Mr Temer is working daily to maintain enough support among legislators to defeat any eventual charges. In Mr Temer's case, he is accused of agreeing to pay hush money and taking bribes. The 76-year-old Temer remains in trouble.
Ironically, Temer's strongest claim to stay in power is the argument that he can deliver major reforms to labor laws and the country's pension system.
"Temer will argue, 'I'm the guy who is going to give the country the bitter remedy that will cure it", said Carlos Manhanelli, political marketing specialist and chairman of the Brazilian Association of Political Consultants.
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