The impeachment of Rousseff will take up to six months.
In Brazil, the Upper house of Parliament has voted to start the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff and her immediate suspension from duty.
The meeting turned into an hours-long marathon, so as to speak in the debate before the vote, signed up almost all the senators.
The vast majority of speakers spoke in support of impeachment, but party members of Rousseff in the workers ‘ party called it a farce and has expressed support for the President.
On the eve of the vote, the President made a last attempt to prevent his removal from power, but the country’s Supreme court rejected her request to block impeachment proceedings.
After that, she, without waiting for the decision of the Senate, left his office, taking personal belongings.
The decision of the Senate means the holding of hearings on impeachment in the upper house of the Parliament of Brazil, while Rousseff was suspended from the duties of the President for up to six months.
Dilma Rousseff is being accused of concealing the true size of the budget deficit of the country during her election campaign in 2014.
Simultaneously, in 2014 in Brazil is an investigation of corruption schemes in the state-controlled company Petrobras.
