MOSCOW (Sputnik) – According to the D24am portal, the Senate is now expected to vote on the issue on May 11. Should the upper house of the parliament vote in favor of impeaching her, Rousseff will be suspended for up to 180 days.
Brazil’s leader has been facing rising discontent over the country's struggling economy and a major corruption scandal in the state-owned energy corporation Petrobras. She headed the company between 2003 and 2010, the period during which most of the corruption reportedly took place.
Rousseff's impeachment process has been characterized by her supporters as a political witch-hunt and the Brazilian head of state vowed to fight the campaign against her.
