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Polls confirm support for Rousseff has crashed and Lula da Silva becomes an option
Former president Lula da Silva is back leading opinion polls as the most likeable candidate for Brazil’s presidential election in 2014, eleven percentage points ahead of his successor and current president Dilma Rousseff according to the latest public opinion polls released over the week end. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWell the crook says he won't run and he would be foolish to do so after the last episode when he came back too early and suffered a relapse in his cancer treatment.
Jul 23rd, 2013 - 12:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He needs of course to get behind Rouseff in a far more positive way.
Why, oh why does the general populace of these big South American countries do the self-defeating thing and profess support for the damaged and tarnished?!
Jul 23rd, 2013 - 02:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps they think that the new Rousseff is personally responsible for their old situation, rather than the Lula (the squid) that really brought the country to the corrupt state it is.
The young clamour for ethics and honesty, but the people in general prefer to live (dishonestly) in a state of state corruption.
Happy people and beautiful country ... but a sad situation.
I hope this doesn´t bring him to actually propose himself as a candidate, that would hurt Brazil´s electoral process and maybe even more the economy IMO. Brazil´s needs a change of approach at least, economically speaking.
Jul 23rd, 2013 - 02:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, somebody with an understanding of finance as the president would help because although I think Dilma has done a good job; keeping the liar Mantega has done nothing but harm to Brazil and she does not seem to see that.
Jul 23rd, 2013 - 04:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Dilma seems to be trying to do well, but from what I have heard congress an the way it´s organized doesn´t leave her much space to make reforms.
Jul 23rd, 2013 - 09:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Agreed, Elena.
Jul 24th, 2013 - 07:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0But Dilma - or any other leader - will never have a better opportunity to reform Congress and the rest; this huge pressure from the people is a 'once in a lifetime' opportunity.
The 'political' establishment will fight 'tooth and nail' to block or water-down all attempted reforms - mostly because it would block their distribution of largesse with the huge personal rewards that come with it.
@6 I agree, the pressure from the ppl must go on.
Jul 24th, 2013 - 08:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes agreed, she should re-organise congress so the executive branch and control the legislative branch. Step one.......than onto step two.
Jul 24th, 2013 - 11:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Dilma is the best president Brazil has ever had, and will I predict win a massive victory next year. What's really interesting is that in this poll is that the main opposition is now the left-ish Greens, with the preferred candidate of the mercopress right trailing at 13% =)
Aug 01st, 2013 - 07:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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