 On 2 December 2015, Eduardo Cunha, President of the Chamber of Deputies, accepted a petition for Rousseff's impeachment.A special committee held hearings and recommended that the full Chamber authorize presenting the charges to the Senate.On 17 April 2016, the lower house voted by the required majority of two-thirds of its members to present the impeachment petition to the Senate, and did so on 18 April 2016.