Temer took over the presidency Thursday from Brazil's first female President Dilma Rousseff, who was suspended from office for 180 days.
If Rousseff is found innocent of a fiscal cover-up, an accusation she has denied, she will return to power in no more than six months.
But in Temer's first interview as acting president with the weekly news magazine "Epoca," he spoke as if Rousseff's conviction was a foregone conclusion.
"With everyone's help, I want to put the country back on track in the next two years and seven months," Temer told the weekly, suggesting his plan to remain in office for a long run.
However, Temer did not dismiss the possibility of Rousseff returning.
He told the weekly that he stopped his new cabinet members from taking down paintings of Rousseff in the government office. "She has been suspended, but she continues to be president. Until she leaves definitively, which should be the Senate's decision, her rights as suspended president must be assured," Temer said.
Rousseff, who is charged with being "criminally responsible" for her administration's alleged cover-up of public deficits in 2014 and 2015 in an attempt to get reelected, claims that the charge is unfounded, and her political rivals are using it as an excuse to seize power.
- She called Friday Temer's interim government "illegitimate" and warned of its long-term consequences.
She criticized Temer's new cabinet for failing to reflect Brazil's cultural melting pot or give women a voice, and being positioned to be "extremely conservative" in social and cultural matters.
[Xinhua - globaltimes.cn]
14/5/16
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Rousseff attacks cabinet for being all-male and all-white...
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It is the first cabinet with no women in Brazil since 1979.
Ms Rousseff said it did not represent the country - one of the world's most ethnically diverse nations.
Her government had seven women among its 31 ministers.
Ms Rousseff is facing trial after the Senate on Thursday voted to impeach and suspend her.
She is accused of illegally manipulating finances to hide a growing public deficit ahead of her re-election in 2014, which she denies.
The new government's chief-of-staff said they had been unable to find any women for the cabinet....BBC
14/5/16