Complex sentence: On 31 August 2016, the Senate voted 61--20 to convict the impeached President Dilma Rousseff and remove her from office, allowing a political shift from a center-left to a center-right government.
Split into simpler sentences: On 31 August 2016, the Senate voted 61--20 to convict the impeached President Dilma Rousseff and remove her from office. Such procedure allowed a political shift from a center-left to a center-right government.