After several weeks of speculation, Brazilian lawmakers pass vote of impeachment to the suspended Brazil president Dilma Rousseff today following a 61-20 vote by the country’s senate.
The impeached president Rousseff became first female president in the country history in 2014, she will be replaced by Vice President Michel Temer, 75. He will be sworn in on Wednesday to serve out her term which extends through 2018.
On Monday, she was appear in senate house in order to defend herself in her impeachment trial and insisted that she was innocent of any wrongdoing in an lengthy speech before the senate. Lawmakers had charged that she breached fiscal rules in an attempt to cover up the nation’s budget woes.
After the impeachment judgment today, she become first Brazil leader to be dismissed from office since 1992, when Fernando Collor de Mello resigned before a final vote in his impeachment trial for corruption.