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Ascending Marina Silva ties with Dilma and polarizes the 5 October election
Presidential candidate Marina Silva has widened her lead over President Dilma Rousseff to 10 percentage points in what could be a likely runoff in Brazil's October election, a survey by polling firm Datafolha showed on Friday. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThe problem with this article is that Marina Silva is not perceived here as an anti-establishment figure.
Sep 01st, 2014 - 08:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Her work with Chico Mendes to preserve the Amazonas for something other than expensive wood paneling in bathrooms and bedrooms of the rich and famous is commendable here.
What is correct is her draw to the increasing number of disenfranchised voters, which we saw much of before and during the Copa. President Dilma and her administration has not bridged that gap, and has no traction with that voter group. They aren't listening.
Many here voted for Marina Silva before in the previous election, primarily for her work as Minister of the Environment, and the fact that she broke away from the PT. This by no means was limited to just the youth vote. It was common knowledge then that she and then Chief or Staff Dilma did not agree on policy matters, which today is amplified even further.
The Neves bloc is now seen as the spoiler vote, and is actively being courted by both the PT and PSDB. If Marina Silva and her team can bridge the market-friendly concerns of business, and ignore whatever “ night dirt ” is thrown up against her at the last minute, it will be a very interesting election.
Hers to lose, so to speak.
Pick your poison Brazil
Sep 01st, 2014 - 09:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Interesting...
Sep 02nd, 2014 - 01:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Marina is splitting the Neves vote - the 'right wing' vote.
Marina should be splitting the Dilma vote - she is 'Left', ex-PT.
My guess is that she already split the Left at the last Presidential election.
Never seen a genuine politician split Left and Right so efficiently. The UKIP man has done it in England - but could we really call him a genuine politician?
Marina is attracting the votes from both the other main candidates. To look at the election realistically, Aécio will most likely not get to the 2nd round, but I believe that the majority of his supporters will vote for Marina in the 2nd round. Marina broke away from the PT because she did not see eye to eye with Lula on many topics, which does not make her centre-right, but I think she got a good inside view of the putrid rot within the PT.
Sep 02nd, 2014 - 05:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How did Campos and how does she feel about Putin? Lula's Castro friendship?
Sep 02nd, 2014 - 09:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Okay I am not following this election but is their choice really between a Socialist and a Marxist Terrorist?
Sep 02nd, 2014 - 10:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If so they're doomed
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Sep 02nd, 2014 - 10:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't know what Campos and now her, think of Putin, but I'm pretty sure she was not in favour of Lula's close ties to all the ridiculous dictators in the world . As I've said before, Lula always befriended uneducated lunatics like himself. He felt inferior when in the company of educated people. Doesn't speak any English, can't even speak Portuguese correctly, never studied, doesn't appreciate people who have, and is proud of being the first ignorant president of Brazil. Won't be sad to see the back of him...
I hoped that Dilma would turn out to be a pragmatic leader rather than a dyed in the wool 'Socialist and a Marxist Terrorist'. To some extent - the Mensalao trials - she showed herself to be so; but perhaps she was being driven by 'the people' to facilitate the trials.
Sep 03rd, 2014 - 07:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0I think, probably, the all-pervading corruption purposefully created by Lula was too much for her to manage.
Marina will have all this to handle, and more.
Lula has left an infested contamination across the whole of Brasil that will take generation to disinfect.
It needs the political equivalent of Agent Orange - it remains to be seen whether Marina has the the strength of a fleet of B52s ... and, even then, like in Vietnam, it may not be enough.
In a desperate manouevre to save her useless skin, Dilma has thrown Mantega to the lions.....she admits, in a rather vague manner, in an attempt to not compromise her previous judgement when she kept him on as Finance Minister, that he was/is a failure. She too, is a complete failure, and should step down gracefully. But that is not the way of the PT - they steal, lie, and will do 'anything' to hold on to power.
Sep 05th, 2014 - 05:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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