Finally Brazil Senate Suspends President Dilma Rousseff For `Manupulating Accounting Figures'

by Benson Agoha | International

 

Brazil’s Senate caps a session that lasted more than 20 hours by voting 55-22 to impeach the country’s left-wing president, Dilma Rousseff, on charges of using accounting tricks to hide large budget deficits, according to Fox News.

 

Rousseff will be suspended from office for up to six months and be replaced by her vice president.

 

But the embattled President remained defiant, saying although she may have made mistakes, she had not intentionally manipulated any figures or try to deceive the country.

 

Brazil's deficit is reportedly widening by the day and the glory days of former outspoken president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva who ruled Brazil between January 1, 2003 to January 1, 2011.

68 yeard old Dilma Rousseff, in office since January 2011, is serving her second term, having won re-election in October 2014.

 

(* With contribution from Fox News.)