President Dilma Rouseff Impeached

– President Dilma Rouseff of Brazil has been impeached by the Brazilian Senate

 – Sixty-one senators reportedly voted her out of office

 – Twenty senators alone voted to keep her in power 

– Brazil’s acting president will serve out Rouseff’s remaining terms in office

  The Brazilian press reports announced President Dilma Rouseff has been impeached. 

Sixty-one Senators reportedly voted in favour of her impeachment and 20 against, meeting the two-thirds majority needed to remove her from the presidency.

 BCC reports that
The Acting President Michel Temer will serve out Ms Rousseff’s term, which ends on January 1, 2019.

The Brazilian Senate removed President Dilma Rousseff from office for allegedly manipulating the budget. Sixty-one Senators against 20 voted in favour of the impeachment Wednesday, August 31.

Ms Rousseff was suspended in May after the Senate voted to go ahead with the impeachment process. Brazil’s lawmakers accused her of re-assigning funds between budget items. 

According to the BBC, critics of Rousseff 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 said she did nothing wrong, and called the attempt to remove her a coup d’etat. 

The impeachment puts an end to 13 years in power of her Workers’ Party.