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Brazil’s Senate removed President Dilma Rousseff from office on Wednesday for breaking budgetary laws, ending an impeachment process that has polarized the scandal-plagued country and paralyzed its politics for nine months.
Senators voted 61-20 to convict Rousseff for illegally using money from state banks to boost public spending, putting an end to 13 years of leftist Workers Party rule in Latin America’s largest economy.
Conservative Michel Temer, the former vice president who has run Brazil since Rousseff’s suspension in May, was to be sworn in by the Senate at 4 p.m. local (1900 GMT) on Wednesday to serve out the remainder of the presidential term through 2018.
Under Brazilian law, a dismissed president should be barred from holding any government job, including even teaching posts at state universities.
Read more http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...-brazil_us_57c6f89ee4b0e60d31dc8599?section=&
Senators voted 61-20 to convict Rousseff for illegally using money from state banks to boost public spending, putting an end to 13 years of leftist Workers Party rule in Latin America’s largest economy.
Conservative Michel Temer, the former vice president who has run Brazil since Rousseff’s suspension in May, was to be sworn in by the Senate at 4 p.m. local (1900 GMT) on Wednesday to serve out the remainder of the presidential term through 2018.
Under Brazilian law, a dismissed president should be barred from holding any government job, including even teaching posts at state universities.
Read more http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...-brazil_us_57c6f89ee4b0e60d31dc8599?section=&
