Brazil's president removed from office Brazil's Senate votes to remove President Dilma Rousseff from office for manipulating the budget, ending 13 years in power for the left-wing Workers' Party.
Brazil's
Senate votes to remove President Dilma Rousseff from office for
manipulating the budget, ending 13 years in power for the left-wing
Workers' Party.
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Dilma Rousseff appeared in the Senate on Monday to defend herself and her record
Brazil's Senate has voted to remove President Dilma Rousseff from office for manipulating the budget.
It puts an end to 13 years in power of her left-wing Workers' Party. Ms Rousseff denies the charges.
Sixty-one
senators voted in favour of her impeachment and 20 against, meeting the
two-thirds majority needed to remove her from the presidency.
Acting President Michel Temer will serve out Ms Rousseff's term, which ends on 1 January 2019.
Mr Temer, from the centre-right PMDB party, is expected to be officially sworn in later on Wednesday.
'Coup d'etat'
Ms Rousseff had been suspended in May after the Senate voted to go ahead with the impeachment process.
She was accused of moving funds between government budgets, which is illegal under Brazilian law.
Her
critics said she was trying to plug deficit holes in popular social
programmes to boost her chances of being re-elected for a second term in
October 2014.
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Senators voted in favour of impeaching Ms Rousseff
Ms Rousseff fought the allegations, which she said amounted to a coup d'etat.
She argued that her right-wing political rivals had been trying to remove her from office ever since she was re-elected.
Dilma Rousseff
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Born in 1947, grew up in an upper middle class household in Belo Horizonte
Her father was Bulgarian immigrant and an ex-communist
Joined left-wing movement against Brazil's military dictatorship which had seized power in 1964
Detained in 1970 and imprisoned for three years
Subjected to torture including electric shocks for her role in the underground resistance
Came to political prominence as the protege of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who governed Brazil from 2003 to 2011
Sworn in as Brazil's first female president in 2011
Re-elected to a second term in 2014
Impeached on 31 August 2016
"From the day after I was elected,
several measures were taken to destabilise my government. And you have
been systematically making accusations against me," she said when she
defended herself in the Senate on Monday.
She said that she was
being ousted because she had allowed a wide-ranging corruption
investigation to go ahead which resulted in many high-profile
politicians being charged.
Analysis by Daniel Gallas, BBC South Americas Business Correspondent
Dilma Rousseff's impeachment trial in the Senate has raised important questions about Brazil's democratic institutions.
Was
she ousted for having committed a crime - or was that just a pretext to
remove a president who had lost control of the economy and politics?
Her fiscal manoeuvres were thoroughly examined during the sessions, but it was not just that which was on trial.
Her
government policies, her U-turn on the economy after the election and
corruption in her party were constantly part of the debate.
Also,
as the trial unfolded, Michel Temer's interim government started its
work reforming the economy and outlining new policies.
Senators -
and Brazilians - knew that the question of condemning Ms Rousseff went
beyond just deciding technically whether she was guilty or not.
But
senators who voted in favour of her impeachment said it was Ms Rousseff
and the Workers' Party who were corrupt and needed to go.
Brazilians
have been divided on the issue, with many expressing their support and
loyalty to Ms Rousseff while others have taken part in large
demonstrations demanding that she stand down.
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Supporters of Ms Rousseff have held protests against
Michel Temer, who has been acting president since Ms Rousseff was
suspended
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But there have also been marches by critics of Ms Rousseff, who claim her government is dead
Mr Temer, who will govern until 1 January 2019, has
promised to boost Brazil's economy, which is going through its longest
and deepest recession in the past quarter of a century.
His critics have already warned that he plans to cut many of the popular social programmes introduced by the Workers' Party.
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