Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff won a hotly contested runoff election on Sunday. With more than 99% of votes counted, the incumbent Rousseff had 51.59% of the vote, according to official results. Opposition candidate Aecio Neves garnered 48.41%. Before becoming the country's first female president in 2011, Rousseff, from the Workers' Party, was chief of staff to former President Lula da Silva. She claims that under the presidencies of her predecessor and herself, masses of Brazilians have risen out of poverty. Rousseff, 66, presided over the soccer World Cup in Brazil. She took a lot of political flack over how public money was spent. The President defeated Neves, a 54-year-old economist, who is a well-known name and a career politician. His campaign slogan promised reforms to lower inflation and encourage more investment in the country: "The sure path for Brazil to really change."
do you believe Dilma Rousseff was the correct candidate for the presidency?
do you believe she will continue to movie Brazil in the right direction?
Brazil needs a president that puts fighting poverty as the nation's priority, Brazil is crippled by its poverty stricken individuals who often turn to crime to support themselves. If it takes socialism to solve the problem so be it. I think Brazil made the right decision,
