Lula da Silva’s candidate short of the 50%; Green party the king maker

Monday, October 4th 2010 - 03:44 UTC

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Brazilian President Lula da Silva's chosen candidate to succeed him next year came out on top in Sunday’s vote but fell short of an outright win needed to avoid a runoff at the end of October. The big surprise was the Green Party’s Marina Silva and her 19%, which turns her into king-maker. Read full article

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OMG…………………. Mercopress does it again !!!

”Some observers believe much of Silva's support could go to Serra rather than Rousseff in a runoff. Apparently Serra and Silva have an agreement to that effect.”

”Some observers”….???

What observers???
Where are they observing???
What are they observing???

Pd:
Best posible election result, by the way.
A break away from bi-partitism and finally will the Greens have a place in South American politics.
Oct 04th, 2010 - 05:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Forgetit87
There's no agreement in this effect. At a debate 4 days ago, Serra and Marina were very hostile to each other. And it should also me mentioned that Marina took many votes out of Dilma. Since she's now out of the race, the tendency is that those votes return to Dilma. And even if Marina were to support Serra, it's very improbable that all her voters will do so just because of that. For Dilma to surpass Serra, all she needs to do is to receive the support of 15% of Marina's voters.
Oct 04th, 2010 - 12:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Typhoon
And so we have the views from two (?) Foreign Ministries.
Oct 05th, 2010 - 11:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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