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In a First, Brazil Elects a Woman as President
[1] SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Dilma Rousseff was
elected the country’s first female president
on Sunday, as Brazilians voted strongly in
favor of continuing the economic and social
[5] policies of the popular president, Luiz Inácio
Lula da Silva.
Ms. Rousseff, who served as Mr. da Silva’s
chief of staff and energy minister, joins a
growing wave of democratically elected
[10] female leaders in the region and the world
in the past five years, including Michelle
Bachelet in Chile, Cristina Fernández de
Kirchner in Argentina and Angela Merkel in
Germany.
[15] Ms. Rousseff, 62, defeated José Serra,
the former governor of São Paulo, with 56
percent of the vote to 44 percent, official
numbers showed.
In choosing Ms. Rousseff, who has no elected
[20] political experience, voters sent a message
that they preferred to give the governing
Workers Party more time to broaden the
successful economic policies of Mr. da Silva,
whose government deepened economic
[25] stability and lifted millions of Brazilians out
of poverty and into the lower middle classes.
In her victory speech, Ms. Rousseff pledged
to focus on eradicating poverty, which she
described as an “abyss that still keeps us
[30] from being a developed nation.” She has
indicated that she favors giving the state
greater control over the economy, especially
the oil industry, potentially steering the
country further to the left.
[35] After serving two four-year terms, Mr. da
Silva was barred from seeking re-election,
and he hand-picked Ms. Rousseff to be his
successor, campaigning tirelessly for her.
“He treated this campaign like a re-election
[40] campaign,” a sociologist, Demétrio Magnoli,
said on television on Sunday night.
Though she could not match Mr. da Silva’s
charisma, Ms. Rousseff won Sunday by
dominating the north and northeastern parts
[45] of the country, as well as the key swing states
Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais.
Voters who supported her in São Paulo,
where Mr. Serra won, said Sunday that
they were willing to look past her lack of
[50] experience. “If it were only about experience
I would never vote for her,” said Denilson
Quintino, 43, an electrician. “But she has a
good team behind her. Today the country
is much better off because of the Lula
[55] government. He did more for me than any
other president.”
Mr. Serra, who also ran for president in 2002
and has a long elected political resume, had
pledged to focus on improving education
[60] and the public health care system. He also
indicated he would give private companies a
greater role in developing a newly discovered
oil region that could transform the country
into a global oil power.
[65] Ms. Rousseff promised to build millions of
low-income homes, expand a communitypolicing
program pioneered in Rio de
Janeiro, and substantially improve the quality
of education and public health care. In the
[70] final debate between the two candidates on
Friday, she called education — an area in
which Brazil has lagged many other nations
— “the most important issue facing Brazil.”
Despite the strong support of Mr. da Silva,
[75] the election went to a second round when
Marina Silva, the Green Party candidate
and former environmental minister under
Mr. da Silva, pulled in 19 percent of the
vote. Many voters liked Ms. Silva’s policies
[80] on sustainable development and her antiabortion
stance.
Ms. Rousseff struggled with conservative
religious voters amid accusations from the
opposition that she had flip-flopped on her
[85] stance on abortion. And she lost support
when her successor as chief of staff
was accused of peddling influence with
companies seeking contracts and loans
with the government and state development
[90] bank.
But Mr. Serra struggled to articulate a
consistent campaign message and, with Mr.
da Silva in her camp, Ms. Rousseff, a twicedivorced
grandmother who opposed and
[95] was imprisoned by the military dictatorship
in her early 20s as part of a militant group,
proved too tough to beat.
Myrna Domit contributed reporting. FONTE: The New York Times Published: October 31, 2010
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