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Dilma Rousseff wins Brazil election
Passing the torch – Dilma Roussef and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
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Dilma Rousseff has won Brazil’s presidential election and will become the first woman to lead the Latin American economic powerhouse. Rousseff was declared winner of Sunday’s poll by more than 10 percentage points, beating rival Jose Serra with 55.5 per cent of valid votes cast to his 44.5 per cent.
The 62 year-old former guerilla leader will be sworn in as the country’s president on January 1 after running a campaign that highlighted her links to outgoing president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Rousseff vowed on Sunday to eradicate poverty affecting 20 million people in her nation, in her first pledge as president-elect.
“I reiterate my fundamental promise: the eradication of poverty,” the leftwinger said in her victory speech in Brasilia…
Rousseff will take power in a nation on rise, a country that will host the 2014 World Cup and that is expected to be the globe’s fifth-largest economy by the time it hosts the 2016 Summer Olympics…
Rousseff never has held elected office and lacks the charisma that transformed Silva from a one-time shoeshine boy into one of the globe’s most popular leaders.
In the 1960s she fought against the military dictatorship ruling Brazil in the 1960s, spending time in prison before studying economics and making a name for herself as a compentant technocrat…
About 135 million voters were obliged to cast ballots on Sunday. Under Brazilian law, voting is mandatory for citizens between the ages of 18 and 70.
Bravo! Hasta la victoria siempre.
