# Senate suspends Dilma Rousseff from office

Date: 2016

The impeachment of [Dilma Rousseff](/people/dilma-rousseff), the president of Brazil, began on 2 December 2015 with a petition for her impeachment being accepted by [Eduardo Cunha](/people/eduardo-cunha), then president of the Chamber of Deputies, and continued into late 2016. Rousseff, then more than 12 months into her second four-year term, was charged with criminal administrative misconduct and disregard for the federal budget in violation of article 85, items V and VI, of the Constitution of Brazil and the Fiscal Responsibility Law, Article 36. The petition…

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