By Dom Phillips
The Washington Post - October 26, 2014
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was reelected by a whisker in a
second-round head-to-head vote, after one of the closest, most
aggressive campaigns in the country’s recent history.
Rousseff,
whose left-wing Workers’ Party has governed Brazil since 2003, had
51.6 percent with 99 percent of votes counted. Aécio Neves, the
center-right candidate for the Brazilian Social Democratic Party, came
second, with 48.4 percent.
Cheers rang out and firecrackers
exploded in central Rio as the results came in. The election was the top
subject of discussion Sunday, with Workers’ Party activists carrying
red flags and both sides setting up camps under awnings on city streets.
Rousseff’s
party campaigned hard on its social policies, playing down Brazil’s
stumbling economy and emphasizing social programs, which have helped to
reduce poverty by 55 percent since 2003.
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