After more than six hours of voting and fiery speeches, Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has suffered an overwhelming defeat: 367 lawmakers voted to impeach, more than the two-thirds needed to pass the motion.

The motion now goes forward to the Senate, which will vote on whether a formal impeachment trial will be held in the coming weeks.

BRASILIA, April 18, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Image provided by Brazil's Presidency shows Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff making a statement at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, on April 18, 2016. The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, or the lower house of parliament, voted in favor of impeaching President Dilma Rousseff on Sunday. (Xinhua/Roberto Stuckert Filho/Brazil's Presidency)

Sunday’s vote came after weeks of raucous debates inside Brazil's Congress, and rival protests outside. Brazil’s lower house has voted to send the motion of impeachment to the senate, with Rousseff's opponents winning the required two-thirds majority.

The Senate will then have to vote on whether to accept the impeachment motion. If the majority votes in favor, the trial in the Senate will begin and Rousseff must step aside for 180 days.

After that, the Senate will vote on whether to impeach Rousseff. If two-thirds agree then Rousseff will be removed from office permanently.

Rousseff faces charges of breaking budget laws to support her re-election in 2014. But she denies any wrongdoing.

“I didn’t commit a crime, no complaint of corruption or deviation of public funds exists against me. I never impeded the investigation, my name is not on any list nor am I suspected of any crime against the common good,” she said.

If Rousseff is indeed impeached, vice president Michel Temer will replace her until the 2018 election. But a request was delivered to the lower house this month to also impeach Temer for corruption.

In a recent poll, more than 60 percent of respondents support Rousseff’s ouster, and 58 percent said they also support Temer’s impeachment.

Brazil’s economy is going through its worst recession in more than three decades following a drop in prices for Brazilian commodities. This is also thought to be the key reason for public’s support of Rousseff’s impeachment.

In 2015, the economy shrank by 3.8 percent, its worst annual performance since 1981. Inflation reached 10.7 percent at the end of last year, a 12-year-high.

Meanwhile, as unemployment rises fast and the Zika virus continues to spread, there are major hurdles ahead. The Rio Olympics will open in less than four months. Many people are hoping that Rousseff’s impeachment could usher in a new era for Brazilian politics.