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| Brazil President Dilma Rousseff impeached by Senate | |
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| Brazil's Senate has voted to remove President Dilma Rousseff from office for manipulating the budget. | 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. | 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. | 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. | Mr Temer, from the centre-right PMDB party, is expected to be officially sworn in later on Wednesday. |
| 'Coup d'etat' | 'Coup d'etat' |
| Ms Rousseff had been suspended in May after the Senate voted to go ahead with the impeachment process. | 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. | 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. | 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. |
| Ms Rousseff fought the allegations, which she said amounted to a coup d'etat. | 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 | |
| "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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. |