A Brazilian Senate committee voted on Friday to recommend starting an impeachment trial against President Dilma Rousseff, who now faces being suspended from office in less than a week.
The special committee’s decision was non-binding but marked the last formal stage before the full Senate votes Wednesday on whether to put the leftist leader on trial.
“The case now goes to the full federal Senate,” announced opposition Senator Raimundo lira.
With the Senate considered almost certain to open the trial next week, Rousseff is preparing to step aside for up to six months while the 81 senators decide her fate, plunging Brazil into ever deeper political infighting