In a landmark vote on Sunday evening, Brazil's lower house of Congress, the Chamber of Deputies, supported impeaching President Dilma Rousseff, The Associated Press reports. The vote was 367 to 137 with seven abstentions. Two deputies were not present. The total easily surpassed the two-thirds majority required to send the proceeding to Brazil's Senate.The Senate will vote by simple majority — likely next month — whether to convene a trial. If it approves, Rousseff would temporarily step down and Vice President Michel Temer would serve as acting president. A two-thirds vote of Brazil's 81 senators is required to convict and remove her from office.According to Reuters, Brazil's ruling Workers' Party conceded defeat. The party's leader in the chamber, José Guimarães, said members would focus on blocking the effort to remove Rousseff from office in the Senate."The fight continues now in the Senate," he told reporters in the lower house of Congress.Meantime, Brazil's presidential chief of
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