Baku-APA. Suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff didn't mince words as she began the fight of her political life Thursday, APA reports quoting CNN.
"It's a coup," she told reporters, speaking out publicly for the first time since senators voted to begin an impeachment trial against her.
It took Brazil's Senate about 20 hours of debate to reach a decisive result early Thursday: The country's first female president must step aside while the trial gets underway.
It took Rousseff less than an hour to make two speeches slamming the vote: One to reporters inside the presidential palace, and one to crowds outside after she was kicked out.
"I'm the victim of a great injustice," Rousseff told cheering supporters.
She delivered an impassioned speech from a podium set up outside -- stopping several times to ask people around her to move so she could see the crowd.
She shook hands, kissed a baby and hugged people afterward.
"My government has been the objective of sabotage," Rousseff said, decrying impeachment proceedings as a betrayal and an injustice.
"I have made mistakes, but I have not committed any crimes. I am being judged unjustly, because I have followed the law to the letter," she said.
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