Brazil’s Senate has voted to remove President Dilma Rousseff from office for manipulating the budget.<\/p>\n
It puts an end to 13 years in power of her left-wing Workers’ Party. Ms Rousseff denies the charges.<\/p>\n
Sixty-one senators voted in favour of her impeachment and 20 against, meeting the two-thirds majority needed to remove her from the presidency.<\/p>\n
Acting President Michel Temer will serve out Ms Rousseff’s term, which ends on 1 January 2019.<\/p>\n
Mr Temer, from the centre-right PMDB party, is expected to be officially sworn in later on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
‘Coup d’etat’<\/p>\n
Ms Rousseff had been suspended in May after the Senate voted to go ahead with the impeachment process.<\/p>\n
She was accused of moving funds between government budgets, which is illegal under Brazilian law.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Ms Rousseff fought the allegations, which she said amounted to a coup d’etat.<\/p>\n
She argued that her right-wing political rivals had been trying to remove her from office ever since she was re-elected.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.
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