Brazil's Dilma Rousseff Stripped of Presidency Wednesday Aug 31,2016

Brazil's Senate removed President Dilma Rousseff(68) from office on Wednesday Aug 31,2016 for breaking budgetary laws, in an impeachment process that has polarized the Latin American country and paralyzed its politics for 9 months.

Brazilian Senators voted 61-20 to convict Rousseff for illegally using money from state banks to boost public spending.

Brazil's Dilma Rousseff was stripped of the country's presidency on Wednesday Aug 31,2016 in a Senate impeachment vote ending 13 years of leftist rule in Latin America's biggest economy. 

Dilma Rousseff was convicted by 61 of the 81 senators of illegally manipulating the national budget. The vote, passing the needed two-thirds majority, meant she was immediately removed from office.

Cheers -- and cries of disappointment -- erupted in the blue-carpeted, circular Senate chamber as the verdict flashed up on the electronic voting screen.  

Her conservative former Vice President Michel Temer, who has run the country since her suspension in May, will be sworn to serve out the remainder of her term through 2018.

Dilma Rousseff Not Barred from Public Office Despite Impeachment

Brazil's Senate on Wednesday Aug 31,2016 voted not to bar Dilma Rousseff from holding public office in the future despite stripping her of the presidency at her impeachment trial.

After the vote to impeach her, senators in a second vote fell short of the two-thirds majority required to bar her from office for eight years, with just 42 of the 81 members backing the move.