A Senate committee in Brazil on Thursday voted in favor of moving forward with the impeachment trial of suspended President Dilma Rousseff.
In a 14-5 vote, the committee elected to try Rousseff for allegedly manipulating federal records to finance public spending prior to her 2014 re-election campaign. The Senate will vote on Tuesday whether to accept the committee’s vote and proceed with the trial, Reuters reports.
“The committee vote confirms not only that Rousseff knowingly broke fiscal laws, but also that she was a dishonest administrator,” said committee member Senator Ricardo Ferraço.