Brazil & Southern Cone - February 2013 (ISSN 1741-4431)

Elections may be eighteen months away in Brazil, but jockeying for position for the 2014 race has already begun. For the ruling Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), the occasion of their tenth year in power provided a timely opportunity to remind voters of its achievements and warn them of the alternatives. President Dilma Rousseff retains high approval ratings, but with little good news to impart to voters at present, the government runs the risk of dwelling too much on the past. After noting Brazil’s “piffling” GDP figure for 2012, the leading opposition presidential candidate for 2014, Aécio Neves, said that “Brazil at this moment needs much more of a president and less of a candidate”.

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