Brazil’s lower house of Congress has voted to start impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff. The final vote was 367 to 137 in favor of impeachment. Early next month, Brazil’s Senate will vote on whether to put Rousseff on trial for manipulating budget accounts. José Guimarães, the congressional leader of Rousseff’s Workers’ Party, accused opposition lawmakers of waging a coup.

José Guimarães: “The coup has won in the lower house, but the fight has not ended. No matter if it’s in the streets and lanes or in the Senate, we will arouse the masses and communicate with the Senate. We believe the Senate will eliminate the attempts of the people involved in the coup, which is manipulated by someone with no morals.”

Brazil has been engulfed in a major corruption scandal, but Dilma Rousseff herself has not been accused of any financial impropriety. However, 318 members of the Brazilian Congress—including many who backed her impeachment—are under investigation or face charges. Leading the impeachment process has been Brazil’s Speaker of the House Eduardo Cunha, who has been accused of squirreling away $5 million into Swiss bank accounts. Prior to the vote, Dilma Rousseff said the charges against her were false.

President Dilma Rousseff: “The complaint against me that is under analysis in the National Congress is a fraud—the biggest judicial and political fraud in the history of our country. Without this, impeachment wouldn’t be voted upon. Brazil and democracy don’t deserve this farce.”