Brazilian senators have voted 59-21 against suspended president Dilma Rousseff, who will now go on trial for budgetary manipulation.
The result was as expected since only a small majority was needed to indict Rousseff, who denies all wrongdoing. Vice-president Michel Temer will now serve out the remainder of her term, ending in 2018.
Impeachment proceedings were brought against Rousseff in May, temporarily removing the left-wing president who had come to embody public anger against corruption and bribery within the government.
International reactions to the ongoing case in Brazil have been sceptical, with US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders likening the ousting to a ‘coup d’etat’. Rousseff herself labelled the vote a ‘right-wing conspiracy’; however, the result is unlikely to be overturned and Rousseff’s trial will begin shortly.
This is the just the latest political storm to hit the headlines from Brazil; earlier this year the national oil company Petrobras was embroiled in a scandal after corrupt directors siphoned money from the company, in which the Brazilian government holds a majority stake.