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| Brazil senators vote to impeach President Rousseff for breaking budget laws | Brazil senators vote to impeach President Rousseff for breaking budget laws |
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| Brazilian senators have voted to put President Dilma Rousseff on trial for breaking budget laws. She is to be suspended from her post after five years in power. | Brazilian senators have voted to put President Dilma Rousseff on trial for breaking budget laws. She is to be suspended from her post after five years in power. |
| "Today we are trying to overcome this situation by removing an irresponsible government. We have no alternative," said Senator Blairo Maggi, as cited by Reuters. | |
| The senate voted 55 against 22 in favor of putting the Brazilian president on trial. | The senate voted 55 against 22 in favor of putting the Brazilian president on trial. |
| Vice-President Michel Temer is to become acting president during Rousseff’s trial, according to the senate. | Vice-President Michel Temer is to become acting president during Rousseff’s trial, according to the senate. |
| The impeachment process against Rousseff started back in 2015. The charges against the first female president of Brazil include administrative misconduct, disregarding the federal budget, and corruption. | The impeachment process against Rousseff started back in 2015. The charges against the first female president of Brazil include administrative misconduct, disregarding the federal budget, and corruption. |
| On Monday Brazil’s senate rejected the lower house speaker’s decision to halt impeachment proceedings against the president. | On Monday Brazil’s senate rejected the lower house speaker’s decision to halt impeachment proceedings against the president. |
| On Monday, following the decision by the senate to proceed with voting to put her on trial, Rousseff said she was “a victim of a coup.” | |
| “It's an absolute disregard of the Brazilian population, it's to undermine their capacity to comprehend, to talk that impeachment is not a coup because it's in the constitution. Well, it is in the constitution, but they forget to say that to have an impeachment, there needs to be a crime of responsibility. And there is no crime of responsibility,” Rousseff stressed. | |
| A number of high-ranking Brazilian officials are also involved in Rousseff’s case. Ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a close ally and mentor to Rousseff, has also been drawn into the scandal, further setting back her approval ratings, which had already plummeted to around 10 percent. | |
| Three men in Rouseff’s possible line of succession, the vice-president, ex-speaker of the lower house Eduardo Cunha and the head of the upper house of Congress, Renan Calheiros, have all been implicated in the investigation. |