Dilma Rousseff has been stripped of her presidential duties for at least six months after Brazil's senators voted 55-22 to impeach her and put her on trial.
The lawmakers accepted the charges against Rousseff, accusing her of manipulating government accounts to hide a growing public deficit ahead of her re-election in 2014.
Rousseff, Brazil's first female president, will have to step aside for at least six months while she is tried in the upper house and her judges will be senators, many of whom are accused of more serious crimes, reports the Guardian.
For Rousseff's leftist Workers' Party and its supporters it's a day of shame for Brazil's political class.
While many acknowledge that her shortcomings that she never appeared comfortable dealing with Congress or communicating with the nation, they claim she is the victim of a "coup" by the opposition who were unable to accept her victory last election and deliberately caused instability to grab power.
"This is the saddest day in the history of our young democracy.This isn't a valid Constitutional process, it is a coup that goes against the opinion of the majority in the 2014 election," the Guardian quoted said Vanessa Grazziotin, a senator from the Communist Party of Brazil as saying.
Vice-President Michel Temer will now assume the presidency while Rousseff's trial takes place.
She made a last-ditch appeal to the Supreme Court to stop the proceedings, but the move was rejected. The move brings an end to 13 years of the rule of her Workers' Party.
