DHAKA: Brazil's new acting President Michel Temer has addressed the nation after the Senate voted to back the prosecution trial of Dilma Rousseff.

Temer said, ‘Trust in the values of our people and in our ability to rebuild the economy’, BBC reports on Friday (May 13).

He has named a business-friendly cabinet that includes respected former central bank chief Henrique Meirelles as finance minster.

Rousseff denounced her removal as a ‘farce’ and ‘sabotage’.

Temer was the leftist Rousseff's vice-president before withdrawing his party's support in March. She has accused him of involvement in a ‘coup’.

After Wednesday's all-night session that lasted more than 20 hours, senators voted by 55 votes to 22 to suspend her and put her on trial for budgetary violations.

In her final speech on Thursday afternoon, she again denied the allegations and vowed to fight what she called an ‘injustice’ by all legal means.

BDST: 1306 HRS, MAY 13, 2016
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