Lawmakers in Brazil will vote Sunday on whether the impeachment process for President Dilma Rousseff will move forward, as the country battles its latest political crisis.

Two-thirds of the representatives in the lower house of Congress, 342 of 513 members, must approve the motion to move the issue to the Senate. There, Rousseff would face another vote that could oust her halfway through her second presidential term.

Impeachment proceedings began Friday.

Opposition to Rousseff has increased in recent months, with accusations surfacing of unscrupulous and illegal accounting practices to cover government shortfalls during her 2014 reelection campaign. Rousseff has denied the accusations.

Her critics also blame Rousseff for the country’s recession and a massive corruption scandal involving state oil company Petrobras.

The 68-year-old leader was first elected in 2010, then again in 2014, continuing 13 years of leadership by the leftist Workers’ Party.

The first in line to carry out the remaining two years of her mandate would be Vice President Michael Temer of the Brazilian Democratic Movement, whom Rousseff has accused of being part of the movement to remove her from office.
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