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Dilma Rousseff re-elected Brazil president

INCUMBENT PRESIDENT DEFEATS OPPOSITION RIVAL AECIO NEVES WITH A NARROW MARGIN IN A BITTERLY FOUGHT RUN-OFF VOTE.






Last updated: 26 Oct 2014 23:12












Dilma Roussef (left) was pitted against conservative rival Aecio Neves [Reuters]
Brazil's incumbent president Dilma Rousseff has won a second term, defeating her opposition rival Aecio Neves with a narrow margin in a nearly complete count of votes after a presidential run-off election.
An official tally of 98 percent of ballots showed Rousseff with 51.45 percent of valid votes.
Opinion polls before the results were announced gave Rousseff a four-percent to six-percent lead, although Sunday's election remained too close to call until the last minute.
Rousseff will face a declining economy in recession and rising inflation which has broken the government's own target ceiling of 6.5 percent.
Rousseff will also have to deal with public frustration over shoddy public services and endemic corruption.
Brazil's most competitive presidential campaign in decades has also been the most acrimonious in recent memory, dominated by attack ads and a steady drum beat of corruption allegations.
The bitter campaign has emphasised a clash between classes in a country still riven by inequality. Rousseff's team relentlessly portrayed Neves, a third-generation politician, as a heartless playboy with little concern for the poor.
Rousseff led the first round earlier in October with 41.5 percent compared to 33.6 percent for Neves. Prominent environmentalist Marina Silva was in third place with just 21 percent of the votes.
ANALYSIS FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT
Lucia Newman, Latin American editor
Unlike almost every other country in Latin America, sporting electoral propaganda, the colours, face or name of your favourite party or candidate is perfectly legal in Brazil inside polling stations. What you cannot do is utter the canidate's or party´s name out loud - your preference must be expressed in silence.
At the Joao Paulo II School in Brasilia, I saw dozens of people wearing stickers in favor of Aecio Neves and Dilma Rousseff.
A 35-year-old voter told me that he had voted for Rousseff.  "I am from a privilaged class but the poor people who need the government's help most have seen their lives improve a lot. Everyone else in my family voted for Aecio, though."
A couple with a four-month-old baby in tow told me they had voted for different candidates."I voted for change", said Maria da Silva, referring to Neves. "I want my constitutional rights to decent public health, medicine and education respected and I feel that this is not the case today." 
Her husband disagreed, saying it is a process and change cannot come overnight. This is the argument of the current president, Dilma Rousseff, who has overseen a stagnant economy and high inflation, coupled with serious bribery scandals involvig her Workers' Party.

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