DHAKA: Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff has suffered a blow to her hopes of staving off impeachment proceedings, after a committee voted they should go ahead.

The 65-member congressional committee voted 38 to 27 to recommend impeachment over claims she manipulated government accounts to hide a growing deficit, reports the BBC.

All eyes will now be on a full vote in the lower house on April 17 or 18.

The issue has divided Brazil, with police preparing for mass protests in the capital, Brasilia.

BDST: 1102 HRS, APR 12, 2016
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