DHAKA: Brazil’s lower house has voted to start prosecution proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff over charges of manipulating government accounts.

The “yes” camp comfortably won the required two-thirds majority, after a lengthy session in the capital, reports BBC.

The motion will now be sent to the upper house, the Senate, which is expected to suspend Rousseff while it carries out a formal trial.

She denies the charges, and accuses her opponents of mounting a ‘coup’.

Brazil's governing Workers' Party said ‘the fight continues now in the Senate’, which is expected to consider the case in May.

BDST: 1241 HRS, APR 18, 2016.
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