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The disgraced president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, has been impeached by the country's Senate.
Brazilian senators voted overwhelmingly in favor of ousting her from office.
Park Jong-hong has the latest.
The Senate vote immediately removed Brazil's first female president from office.
Brazilian senators voted 61 to 20 to dismiss Dilma Rousseff, who was suspended back in May.
Her vice president, Michel Temer , will serve as interim president until an election is held in 2018.
Rousseff was impeached on charges of illegally tampering with the budget two years ago to hide a growing deficit in order to win reelection.
The Senate vote marks the culmination of a controversial impeachment process that has dragged on for months.
Even though the Senate's decision is a major blow for Rousseff, it may not mark the end of her political career.
That's because a motion to bar her from holding any public office for the next eight years failed to pass.
In response to the Senate vote, Rousseff said that there was no constitutional justification for the impeachment.
She called the entire affair a coup against her and her leftist party, pledging to fight back.
Rousseff becomes just the second Brazilian leader in history to be dimissed from office.
In 1992, Fernando Collor de Mello resigned before a vote in his impeachment trial for corruption.
Park Jong-hong, Arirang News.
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