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| Brazil's Dilma Rousseff to face impeachment trial | Brazil's Dilma Rousseff to face impeachment trial |
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| Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff is to face trial after the Senate voted to impeach and suspend her. | Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff is to face trial after the Senate voted to impeach and suspend her. |
| Ms Rousseff is accused of illegally manipulating finances to hide a growing public deficit ahead of her re-election in 2014, which she denies. | Ms Rousseff is accused of illegally manipulating finances to hide a growing public deficit ahead of her re-election in 2014, which she denies. |
| Senators voted to suspend her by 55 votes to 22 after an all-night session that lasted more than 20 hours. | Senators voted to suspend her by 55 votes to 22 after an all-night session that lasted more than 20 hours. |
| Vice-President Michel Temer will now assume the presidency while Ms Rousseff's trial takes place. | Vice-President Michel Temer will now assume the presidency while Ms Rousseff's trial takes place. |
| The trial may last up to 180 days, which would mean Ms Rousseff would be suspended during the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, which start on 5 August. | The trial may last up to 180 days, which would mean Ms Rousseff would be suspended during the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, which start on 5 August. |
| Ms Rousseff made a last-ditch appeal to the Supreme Court to stop proceedings, but the move was rejected. | Ms Rousseff made a last-ditch appeal to the Supreme Court to stop proceedings, but the move was rejected. |
| Ms Rousseff, who was first sworn into office in January 2011 and started a second term in 2015, has called the steps to remove her a "coup". | |
| In a speech at the end of the all-night Senate session, attorney general Jose Eduardo Cardozo said that the impeachment request did not have legal basis and that the opposition wanted to remove a democratically-elected president. | |
| He said senators were condemning an "innocent woman" and that impeachment was a "historic injustice". | |
| Who is stand-in President Michel Temer? | |
| Michel Temer became interim President as soon as Ms Rousseff was suspended. | |
| Read more on Michel Temer here |