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Opponents of Impeached Brazil President Take to Streets to Celebrate

© AFP 2023 / VANDERLEI ALMEIDABrazilian suspended President Dilma Rousseff gives a press conference with international media at the presidential residence Alvorada Palace in Brasilia on May 13, 2016
Brazilian suspended President Dilma Rousseff gives a press conference with international media at the presidential residence Alvorada Palace in Brasilia on May 13, 2016 - Sputnik International
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Opponents of impeached Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff poured into the streets on Wednesday to celebrate, local media reported.

MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) — Earlier in the day, Brazilian Senate voted 61-20 to impeach Rousseff. A subsequent vote to bar Rousseff from holding public office for eight years failed.

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According to the Globo broadcaster, people gathered in the main street of Sao Paulo, launching fireworks and singing the national anthem.

In May, the upper house of the Brazilian parliament voted 55-22 to start impeachment proceedings against Rousseff after she was accused of concealing the country’s budget deficit ahead of the 2014 election. Rousseff regards the impeachment proceedings as an illegal coup attempt.

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