Paraguay's Senate on Friday voted, after a contentious impeachment trial, to remove leftist President Fernando Lugo from office, the CNN reported.
Both houses of parliament earlier impeached Lugo over last week’s deadly clashes between farmers and police officers that killed seventeen.
Lugo has faced strong condemnation over his mishandling of a forced land eviction in which seven police officers and at least ten farmers were killed.
Liberal Vice President Federico Franco, whose party supported the impeachment, is to take over as president until April 2013, when Paraguay holds presidential and parliamentary elections.
Lugo, who compared the move to a coup, said however that he would obey the decision.
