Brazil's senate has voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff in a landslide vote which will see the controversial leader removed from her Worker's Party after 14 years following accusations of fraud.
Sixty-one senators voted in favour of her impeachment and 20 against, with a two-thirds majority needed to end her presidency of Latin America's largest economy. Interim president Michel Temer, from the centre-right PMDB party, will serve out the rest of the party's term, which ends on 1 January 2019, and is expected to be sworn in on Wednesday. Rousseff (pictured) was suspended in May when the Senate voted to go ahead with the impeachment process after she was accused of moving funds between government budgets to plug deficit holes and increase her chances of re-election. She denies ...
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