Brazil has shown the first Brazil Female President, Dilma Rousseff, doors of the parliament, out of her office, after grueling impeachment under corruption basis.
Following a crushing 61 to 20 defeat in the upper house, she will be replaced for the remaining two years and four months of her term by Michel Temer, a centre-right patrician who was among the leaders of the campaign against his former running mate.
The Senate’s decision is a major blow for Rousseff, a member of the Workers’ Party, but it might not mark the end of her political career. In a separate vote, the senate voted 42 to 36 not to bar Rousseff from public office for eight years.
n his first address to the nation after being sworn in by Congress last night, Temer said it was time to unite the country, vowing to work to rescue an economy mired in recession and guarantee political stability for foreign investors.
They think they’ve defeated us, but they’re wrong,” she said from her official residency. “I know we will all fight.”
The impeachment puts a definitive end to 13 years of governing by the leftist Workers’ Party, an era during which Brazil’s economy boomed, lifting millions into the middle class and raising the country’s profile on the global stage.