Rousseff, 68, a former Marxist guerrilla, said earlier this week that she had committed no crime and said she was proud she’d been “faithful to my commitment to the nation”.
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Rousseff will not go to jail after her conviction.
Her lawyer, José Eduardo Cardozo, said the charges were trumped up to punish the president’s support for a huge corruption investigation that has snared many of Brazil’s elite.
A new president has been sworn in in Brazil after Dilma Rousseff was removed from office.
A separate vote was taken on an article calling for Rousseff to be barred from any public office or employment for eight years. The 42-36 vote fell short of the 54 votes needed for passage.
The country then slid into its deepest recession in decades, and a graft scandal at state oil company Petrobras tarnished Rousseff’s coalition.
Venezuela “has chose to definitively withdraw its ambassador in the Federal Republic of Brazil, and to freeze political and diplomatic relations with the government that emerged from this parliamentary coup”, it said in a statement. He asked his ministers to “vigorously defend” the government from accusations that Rousseff’s dismissal amounted to a coup d’etat – a charge routinely levelled against the opposition by Rousseff’s supporters.
Pleading her innocence during a marathon 14-hour session on Monday, she said that abuse of the impeachment process put at risk Brazil’s democracy, restored in 1985 after a two-decades-long military dictatorship. Temer has been acting very fast to push neoliberal reforms and austerity cuts to social programs, including education, health care and retirement plans, which will create more economic and social instability. Temer will serve out the remainder of her term through 2018. He did not make any statements, and expected to address the nation later Wednesday.
Temer said he planned to attend the G20 meetings in China this weekend, mentioning bilateral meetings that leaders from Spain, Japan, Italy and Saudi Arabia have already requested.
Brazil’s former President, who has been the head of the state since 2011, Dilma Rousseff, has finally got impeached by the Senate in an overwhelming majority.
He appeared tone-deaf with his first move in May: appointing an entirely white, male Cabinet to oversee a nation of 200 million people where more than 50 percent identify as black or mixed-race. While previous petitions to the court have failed to stop the impeachment process, the legal wrangling will keep the issue in the spotlight. Temer has promised to pull the country of 200 million people from its recession by tackling reforms that have always been taboo, such as slimming public pensions.
“Most rational and democratic solution to the current governmental crisis would be a new election”.
For that to happen, however, Mr Temer would have to be removed from office or resign, something he clearly has no intention of doing. I am certain I can say: “‘See you soon'”. “The golpista is you who are against the Constitution”, he said of his critics.
“Today, left-wing governments have to pay the costs”.
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Some Rousseff supporters accuse the media of backing the ousted president’s right wing opponents.
