Brazil’s Senate has voted to indict the country’s first female president. <br /><br /> Dilma Rousseff is accused of using accounting tricks to hide large budget deficits.<br /><br /> She will now stand trial with a verdict expected in a few weeks.<br /><br /> The votes of two-thirds of the Senate are needed to convict Rousseff.<br /><br /> A conviction would remove her from office, ending 13 years of leftist rule by her Workers Party. <br /><br /> The country’s acting president Michel Temer would serve out the rest of her term. <br /><br /> Rouseff and her supporters say a coup is underway, advanced by Temer’s centre-right party. <br /><br /> Rouseff denies any wrongdoing. She has denounced her impeachment as a right-wing conspiracy. She says an accounting technicality has been used as a pretext to illegally remove a government that’s improved the lives of Brazil’s poorer classes. <br /><br /> Here is the full statement from Bernie Sanders condemning the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff pic.twitter.com/eCerb2I0SB— Vincent Bevins (@Vinncent) August 9, 2016<br />
