--- description: An impeachment committee voted on Thursday to move forward with suspended President Dilma Rousseff's removal from office title: Brazil Committee Votes to Proceed With Rousseff Impeachment Trial image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt370487e91b18fe73/6988a141cf40a89512c445b2/gettyimages-540244906.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [brazil](/tag/brazil/) ## brazil Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Brazil Committee Votes to Proceed With Rousseff Impeachment Trial by [Casey Quackenbush](/author/casey-quackenbush/) ## Casey Quackenbush Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 5, 2016 6:10 AM CUT  Suspended Brazilian President Dilma meets with foreign correspondents at Alvorada Palace in Brasília on June 14, 2016 Suspended Brazilian President Dilma meets with foreign correspondents at Alvorada Palace in Brasília on June 14, 2016Evaristo Sa— AFP/Getty Images by [Casey Quackenbush](/author/casey-quackenbush/) ## Casey Quackenbush Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 5, 2016 6:10 AM CUT A Senate committee in Brazil on Thursday [voted in favor](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-impeachment-idUSKCN10F1WE "undefined") of moving forward with the impeachment trial of suspended President Dilma Rousseff. In a 14-5 vote, the committee elected to try [Rousseff](http://time.com/4433320/brazil-dilma-rousseff-impeachment-olympics/ "undefined") 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](http://time.com/4327408/brazil-senate-dilma-rousseff-suspended/ "undefined") the committee’s vote and proceed with the trial, [Reuters](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-impeachment-idUSKCN10F1WE "undefined") reports. “The committee vote confirms not only that Rousseff knowingly broke fiscal laws, but also that she was a dishonest administrator,” [said](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-impeachment-idUSKCN10F1WE "undefined") committee member Senator Ricardo Ferraço. Interim President Michel Temer will remain in power for the remaining term until 2018 if Rousseff is ousted, a move which two-thirds of the Senate supports, according to Brazilian media. Rousseff has consistently denied the allegations, claiming they are part of a right-wing conspiracy against her. Along with a slew of political scandals, Brazil is deeply embroiled in a [financial crisis](http://time.com/4172821/rio-olympics-financial-crisis/?iid=sr-link1 "undefined") that has rocked the country in the run up to the [2016 Olympics](http://time.com/tag/olympics/ "undefined"). On Wednesday, the high costs of the Games drove [crowds](http://time.com/4438296/rio-olympics-torch-protests/ "undefined") to the streets to protest the arrival of the Olympic torch in Rio. \[[_Reuters_](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-impeachment-idUSKCN10F1WE "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4440278/brazil-rousseff-charges-senate-vote/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4440278/brazil-rousseff-charges-senate-vote/"},"headline":"Brazil Committee Votes to Proceed With Rousseff Impeachment Trial","datePublished":"2016-08-05T06:10:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T23:47:28.879Z","description":"The vote paves the way for Rousseff's removal from office","url":"https://time.com/4440278/brazil-rousseff-charges-senate-vote/","keywords":["brazil","olympics","Dilma Rousseff","Rio","Summer Olympics","Impeachment","2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt370487e91b18fe73/6988a141cf40a89512c445b2/gettyimages-540244906.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Casey Quackenbush","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/casey-quackenbush/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt370487e91b18fe73/6988a141cf40a89512c445b2/gettyimages-540244906.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"BRAZIL-CRISIS-ROUSSEFF","caption":"BRAZIL-CRISIS-ROUSSEFF","creditText":"Evaristo Sa— AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/brazil/","name":"brazil"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4440278/brazil-rousseff-charges-senate-vote/","name":"Brazil Committee Votes to Proceed With Rousseff Impeachment Trial"}}]}] ```