Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff impeached by the Senate.

The Brazilian first female president Dilma Rousseff has been removed from office by the country’s senate after a grueling impeachment trial that ends 13 years of Workers’ party rule.

The upper house voted by a majority of 61 to 20 to remove Rousseff from office on the grounds that she illegally manipulated the national budget, she will be replaced for the remaining two years and three months of her term by Michel Temer, a centre right patrician who was among the leaders of the conspiracy against his former running mate.

A separate vote will be held on whether Rousseff will be barred from public office for eight years.

Despite never losing an election, Rousseff who first won power in 2010 has seen her support among the public and in congress diminish as a result of a sharp economic decline, government paralysis and a massive bribery scandal that has implicated almost all the major parties.

It was gathered that for more than 10 months, Rousseff has fought all efforts to impeach her for frontloading funds for government social programmes and issuing spending budget decrees without congressional approval ahead of her re-election in 2014. The opposition claimed that these constituted a “crime of responsibility”. Rousseff denies this and claims the charges which were never leveled at previous administrations who did the same thing have been trumped up by opponents who were unable to accept the Workers’ party’s victory.

We gathered that in keeping with her pledge to fight until the end for the 54 million voters who put her in office, Rousseff a former Marxist guerrilla ended her presidency this week with a gritty 14 hour defence of her government’s achievements and a sharply worded attack on the “usurpers” and “coup mongers” who ejected her from power without an election.