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The President of Brazil was impeached

Президенту Бразилии объявили импичментInterim head of state until the election of 2018, becoming Vice-President Michel Temer.

The Senate of Brazil voted for the final impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff.

At the meeting on Wednesday, August 31, for the impeachment voted 61 Senator, against the resignation of Rousseff voted 20 people. No abstentions.

Total voting was supposed to take part 81 Senator. In order to Rousseff was removed from office, required the votes of 54 lawmakers.

Thus, Brazil until the end of 2018, will be headed by Vice-President Michel Temer.

Rousseff is being accused of concealing the real budget deficit of the country during her election campaign in 2014. Simultaneously, in 2014 in Brazil is the investigation of corruption schemes in the state-controlled company Petrobras.

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