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Brazil reelects president Rousseff to second term Xinhua, in Brasilia, 26 October 2014 Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff was reelected to a second term Sunday, official results showed. Rousseff garnered 51.62 percent of the votes, while conservative opposition candidate Aecio Neves of the Social Democratic party (PSDB) got 48.38 percent, with 99.77 percent of the votes counted, the country's Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) said. Rousseff, 66, won what was considered as Brazil's most bitterly contested presidential race in two decades, as an economic slowdown gave the pro-business PSDB an opportunity to make headway in its campaign. Acknowledging the economic troubles, Rousseff's campaign promised "a new cycle of development (that will be) more productive and more competitive" for Latin America's biggest economy. Her win means another four years in power for the Workers' Party, which has held power for 12 years and leveraged an economic growth to expand social welfare programs and lift more than 40 million people from poverty in Latin America's most populous country. In 2002, her predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defeated the PSDB's Jose Serra to win his first term, and in 2006 he beat the party's Geraldo Alckmin, current governor of Sao Paulo state, to win his second term. From: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-10/27/c_133743674.htm RT.png Rousseff reelected president of Brazil RT, 26 October 2014 Brazil's leftist president Dilma Rousseff has been re-elected for another term with over 51 percent of the vote in a tight presidential run-off on Sunday. Rousseff, who has been in power since 2011, has been re-elected for a second term, winning 51.6 percent of the vote according to the official tally. With over 99 percent of the ballots counted, her opponent, the centrist opposition leader Aecio Neves got 48.4 percent. From: http://rt.com/news/199516-brazil-president-elections-results/ -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
