The Brazilian Senate voted on Wednesday to strip Dilma Rousseff of the presidency¹ by 61 votes in favor to 20 votes against.

 

本周三，巴西参议院以61票赞成、20票反对的投票结果，剥夺迪尔玛·罗塞夫的总统职位。

 

This means Rousseff is immediately and permanently² removed from her role and Michel Temer, who assumed the interim³ presidency after Rousseff was suspended in May, will become president until the end of this term in 2018.

 

Rousseff was found guilty of seeking to hide public budget deficits⁴ through fiscal⁵ irregularities, such as delaying loan payments to public banks and ordering additional loans without congressional approval.

 

In a separate vote, however, Rousseff escaped from being suspended from public office for eight years. A two-thirds majority was needed to suspend her, but she escaped with 42 votes in favor, 36 against, and three abstentions.

 

The president of the Supreme⁶ Court, Ricardo Lewandowski, opened the historic session at 11:15 a.m. local time and gave a brief summary of the impeachment⁷ process.

 

Following this, the defense⁸ denied the accusations⁹, with Senator Lindbergh Farias, from the Workers' Party, vowing¹⁰ that "this session will never end, it will continue in history."

 

"This is a farce¹¹, the process is a mere¹² pretext¹³, the evidence is irrelevant¹⁴. There are two types of senators, those who know there was no crime of responsibility and vote against impeachment, and those who know there was no crime of responsibility and vote in favor of impeachment."

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