But Ms. Rousseff showed no signs of going quietly, vowing to work with her party on a “firm, tireless and energetic” opposition to Mr. Temer’s administration.
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Temer’s rise halts 13 years of Workers’ Party rule and signals an abrupt turn to the right for Brazil’s government.
Michel Temer, who has been serving as interim president since Rousseff was suspended from her position in May following the allegations against her, will officially become the President of Brazil.
“Rousseff can run in the 2018 elections for deputy, senator, governor, state legislator, but not for president because she has just served two consecutive terms”, Batini said.
Rousseff was accused of taking illegal state loans to patch budget holes in 2014, masking the country’s problems as it slid into today’s economic disarray.
Rousseff – the country’s first female leader – is also the first Brazilian leader to be dismissed from office since 1992, when Fernando Collor de Mello resigned before a final vote in his impeachment trial for corruption.
As a leader of the country’s biggest party, the ideologically flexible Brazilian Democratic Party Movement, Temer won election as head of the lower house of Congress for almost a decade.
Rousseff’s successor, Michel Temer, took over on an interim basis in May when the Senate voted to impeach and suspend Rousseff.
“When Brazil or when a president is impeached for a crime that they have not committed, the name we have for this in democracy – it’s not an impeachment, it is a coup”, she said after the Senate voted to launch the proceedings.
Sixty-one senators voted to remove Dilma Rousseff, of the Workers’ Party, with just 20 opposing the motion at the end of six days of hearings.
Nonsense, Rousseff countered time and again, proclaiming her innocence up to the end.
His most notable achievement as a politician has been to help the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) in forming coalitions with every president in past two decades.
“I am not saying it is an easy task, since we have nearly 12 million people unemployed in this country”, he said, according to a CNN translation.
“We reaffirm our solidarity with our comrade, the legitimate constitutional president of the Federation of the Republic of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff”, said Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Guillaume Long in Quito.
Numerous 81 senators signed up to speak Tuesday afternoon on the fifth day of her impeachment trial, prompting Chief Justice Ricardo Lewandowski to announce that they would go as long as it took for everyone to be heard.
On August 29, Rousseff made a stern defense in person, urging senators to reject a “coup” and uphold democracy.
Whether Temer can convince Brazilians that he is worth a real shot is unclear.
Rousseff maintained her innocence, saying she engaged in practices typical for Brazilian politicians.
Rousseff stated that the “irony of history” was her being judged for “crimes she did not commit”.
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In what was supposed to be a complete political victory, it casts doubt on Temer’s ability to rally support in Congress for votes on economic measures he says are necessary to control Brazil’s budget deficit and spur growth.
