Brazilian president Brazilian Dilma Rousseff will face an impeachment trial, a vote in the country's Senate has ruled.

The country's premier has now been suspended from office in face of either criminal or civil charges.

On Thursday, 55 senators voted in favour of trying Rousseff for breaking budget laws while 22 were against the motion.

Rousseff is accused of illegally manipulating finances to hide a growing deficit ahead of her re-election in 2014.

She denies the charge but a last minute appeal to the Supreme Court to stop proceedings was rejected.

Rouseff is the protégé of Brazil's hugely popular former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Both are from the leftist Workers Party, which has positioned itself as an honest political group that supports the causes of ordinary working class people.

The party's perceived association with elite corruption has alienated many, and millions of people have taken to the streets to demand Ms Rousseff's resignation.

If Rousseff is convicted she has the right to appeal twice.