Members of the congressional committee in Brazil’s lower house have voted in support of impeaching President Dilma Rousseff.

Majority of the 65-member special committee voted in favor of the impeachment: 38 lawmakers voted yes, while 27 voted on Monday.

Lawmakers accuse Rousseff of hiding a budgetary deficit to win re-election in 2014. Her presidency has been rocked by a massive corruption scandal, accusations of cronyism and a deepening recession.

According to the brazil constitution, if  impeachment is approved by at least two-thirds of the 513 members of the lower house, it will then be sent to the Senate, where the president of the Supreme Court will oversee the process.

Rousseff has claimed that the impeachment process against her is a coup by the president of the lower house, Eduardo Cunha.

However, the impeachment is not approved in the lower house, the process is nullified.

If she is impeached, Vice President Michel Temer would assume the presidency.

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