The opposition needed 54 of the 81 senators to vote in favour for her to be removed. BRASILIA, BRAZIL—Brazil’s Senate on Wednesday voted to remove President Dilma Rousseff from office, the culmination of a yearlong fight that paralyzed Latin America’s largest nation and exposed deep rifts among its people on everything from race relations to social spending. Rousseff won re-election in 2014, garnering more than 54 million votes. Rousseff argued that many opponents just wanted her out of the way so they could save their own skins by tampering with the investigation, which Rousseff had refused to do. In May, Temer took over as interim president after the Senate impeached and suspended Rousseff.

Source: thestar August 31, 2016 16:52 UTC