Brazil’s Senate
voted 61-20 Wednesday, August 31, 2016 to remove President Dilma
Rousseff from office, finding her guilty of breaking budgetary laws in
an impeachment trial, CNN reports.
The impeachment process which has
finally ended today, has dragged on for months. In May 2016, Rousseff
was suspended in May. At the time, Rousseff called the impeachment
proceedings an attempt at a “power grab by her rivals“. She alleged political sabotage of her administration by her rivals.
“When Brazil or when a president is
impeached for a crime that they have not committed, the name we have for
this in democracy — it’s not an impeachment, it is a coup,” she said
after the Senate voted to launch the proceedings.
With her ouster, Michel Temer, 75,
Rousseff’s one-time vice president who’s been serving as interim
president since her suspension, will assume the office of president and
serve out the remainder of her second term.
Rousseff, 68, Brazil’s first-ever female
head of state and a former Marxist guerrilla, insisted earlier this
week that she had committed no crime and said she was proud that she’d
been “faithful to my commitment to the nation.”
The heir-apparent to former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva,
Rousseff was re-elected by a narrow margin in 2014, but a recession and a
cross-party corruption scandal put an end to any political goodwill she
might have earned, eventually leading to her ouster/the protracted
battle.
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