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Brazil & Southern Cone - October 2014 (ISSN 1741-4431)

Gloves off in Brazil’s second round

For much of the past year, the only certainty about Brazil’s presidential election was that it would go to a second round, and that one of the contenders would be President Dilma Rousseff. And so it proved, with the main surprise on 5 October being the unexpectedly strong performance of Aécio Neves, of the main centrist opposition Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB), and the disappointing result for Marina Silva, of the Partido Socialista Brasileiro (PSB). Rousseff, of the left-wing ruling Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) will now face Neves in the run-off on 26 October. At present, the race is too close to call.

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