Rousseff and the subsequent swearing in of acting President Michel Temer as president of Brazil.
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“He trusts that under President Temer’s leadership, Brazil and the United Nations will continue their traditional close partnership”, the statement said.
“We hope and believe that Brazil can continue to maintain national stability and socio-economic development and continue to play an important role in global and regional affairs”, she said, when asked about Rousseff’s removal.
The Brazilian Senate voted on Wednesday to strip Dilma Rousseff of the presidency by 61 votes in favor to 20 votes against.
Temer will serve as president until Dec.31, 2018.
Shortly before the swearing-in, Rousseff vowed “a firm and energetic resistance against the putschist government”.
“We stand with Dilma, Lula and the population in this hard time”, Morales wrote, adding Rousseff’s mentor and predecessor, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is facing corruption charges.
If the impeachment drive was hugely encouraged by a public clamour against an unpopular president, that outcry was in part sparked by Rousseff’s inconsistency in applying austerity policies she had disavowed in her re-election campaign but mostly by indignation over a political corruption for which her party certainly can not disclaim responsibility but which extends to around two-thirds of Brazilian parliamentarians personally and leaves virtually no party immune.
She was also accused of improperly granting loans to the Federal Government from state-owned banks.
Venezuela condemned Rousseffs impeachment saying it will not pursue relations with a government that stemmed from a parliamentary coup d’etat. 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, the countrys foreign ministry said in a statement. The vote, which exceeded the needed two-thirds majority, meant the veteran leftist leader was immediately removed from office. He did not make any statements, and expected to address the nation later Wednesday.
Venezuela says it is freezing diplomatic relations with Brazil and withdrawing its ambassador in response to Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s ouster in a Senate vote.
She told followers at the presidential residence on Wednesday she’s form “the strongest, most tireless and most active opposition that a coup government could suffer”.
The overthrown leader maintained her innocence and used the word “coup” 14 times in her 12-minute speech.
Supreme Court Justice Ricardo Lewandowski is overseeing the proceedings. He’s scheduled to present a summary of the six-day trial before voting begins.
A statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the process of impeachment against Dilma ignores the 54 million votes that brought him to power.
The vote to remove the twice-elected Rousseff from office hearkens back to Brazil’s dark history of oppressive military rule. The same body voted 55-22 in May to impeach and suspend Rousseff.
In a separate vote, however, Rousseff escaped from being suspended from public office for eight years.
Brazil’s Senate has begun its final session in a trial that will decide the fate of President Dilma Rousseff.
Brazil’s first female president, Dilma Rousseff, never lost an election, but she has failed to win the biggest battle of her political career.
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The vote is expected later Wednesday.
