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| Brazil Senate votes 61-20 to impeach President Rousseff for breaking budget laws | |
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| Nine months of political paralysis in Brazil have come to an end after the upper house of Brazil’s parliament decisively voted to strip Dilma Rousseff of her presidency for budgetary violations committed during her term. | |
| Sixty-one senators voted for the impeachment, with only 20 standing by the president, who was suspended in May for manipulating data to conceal the scale of economic problems that have piled up since she assumed power five years ago. | |
| But 68-year-old Rousseff was handed a lifeline after Senate voted not to bar her from holding government office for the next eight years. According to the constitution, an impeached president faces this ban, but Chief Justice Ricardo Lewandowski, presiding over the hearing, allowed a separate vote on the matter. | |
| Conservative Vice-President Michel Temer, who has deputized for socialist Rousseff since her de facto ouster three months ago, is to be sworn in as president later on Wednesday, and will serve out the remaining two years of her term. | |
| Rousseff is the first Brazilian leader to be dismissed from office since 1992, when Fernando Collor de Mello resigned before a final vote in his impeachment trial for corruption. | Rousseff is the first Brazilian leader to be dismissed from office since 1992, when Fernando Collor de Mello resigned before a final vote in his impeachment trial for corruption. |