Rousseff will walk out one last time from the modernist Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, taking her pet dachshund Fafa with her.
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Senator Romero Juca from Temer’s centre-right PMDB party said he also expected a rival appeal to bar Rousseff from politics.
He has recorded an address, which will be broadcast live on television across Brazil on Wednesday evening. It’s not clear whether anyone was injured in the clashes.
Temer took the oath of office in the Senate surrounded by his cabinet members.
“The Senate has found that the president of the federal republic of Brazil, Dilma Vana Rousseff, committed crimes in breaking fiscal laws”, said Chief Justice Ricardo Lewandowski, who presided over the trial. “It is against us”, Maduro said in a televised speech. His office also said it would not privatize offshore oil fields or revoke a series of labor laws.
Several polls have shown that Brazilians want new elections to solve the crisis. Both have young democracies, lagging economic growth and high unemployment, while government is littered with corruption scandals.
“Putschist is you”, he said, referring to Rousseff.
“A coup monger is someone who violates the constitution”, he declared.
Temer said after the official ceremony that he had requested bilateral meetings with the leaders of Spain, Italy, Japan and Saudi Arabia, and will go to China for the summit of the Group of Twenty (G20).
“We are traveling precisely to reveal to the world that we have political and legal stability”, he said.
Senators debated the fate of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff into the wee hours of Wednesday ahead of a planned vote later in the day on whether to remove Rousseff permanently as leader of Latin America’s most populous country.
A political marriage of convenience led the leftist Rousseff to choose the Sao Paulo congressman as her vice presidential running mate in 2010.
She said the push to remove her was a bloodless coup by elites fuming over the populist polices of her Workers’ Party over the last 13 years.
A statement from Caracas calls Rousseff’s impeachment and removal a “parliamentary coup” and says the withdrawal of its ambassador is “definitive”.
Brazilian foreign minister Jose Serra defended the constitutionality of Rousseff’s impeachment and questioned the legitimacy of Maduro’s government. “This is an attack against the popular, progressive, leftist movement”. “They will face the strongest and most energetic opposition that a “putshist” government can face”, she told supporters.
Mr Temer has promised to boost Brazil’s economy, which has shrunk for six consecutive quarters, and implement austerity measures to plug a budget deficit.
Some economists believe the nation has already weathered the worst. Its commodity prices have begun to stabilize and stocks prices are climbing, showing a gradual rise of investors’ confidence. 54 votes were required to pass the second motion.
But there are signs of hope for the largest economy in Latin America. “There are two types of senators, those who know there was no crime of responsibility and vote against impeachment, and those who know there was no crime of responsibility and vote in favor of impeachment”.
Her fiscal manoeuvres were thoroughly examined during the sessions, but it was not just that which was on trial.
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In a separate vote, the senate voted 42 to 36 not to bar Rousseff from public office for eight years. She denies wrongdoing, and frequently points out that previous presidents used similar accounting measures. Rousseff was suspended from office for 180 days.
