Brazil's suspended president Dilma Rousseff urged the Senate Monday to vote against impeaching her, denying charges that she fiddled government accounts.
"Vote against impeachment, vote for democracy... Do not accept a coup," the 68-year-old leftist leader said as she defended herself before senators who are widely expected to remove her from office.
Rousseff, Brazil's first female president, was testifying for the first time at her trial, hours before senators were to start voting on her fate.
All indications point to her being removed from office, ending 13 years of rule by the leftist Workers' Party in Latin America's biggest country.
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