Tag: Brazil presidential debate

• Thursday, November 12th 2015 - 08:44 UTC

  Sunday's presidential candidates' debate decisive for Argentina's runoff on November 22

  

  The director of one of the most reliable pollster organization in Argentina anticipated that the 22 November presidential runoff is still an open race despite the fact the incumbent candidate Daniel Scioli is running several points behind his rival and opposition candidate Mauricio Macri.

• Friday, October 17th 2014 - 07:32 UTC

  After another round of personal attacks with Neves, Rousseff is taken ill

  

  Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff fell ill at the end of a tense and at times bitter televised debate Thursday with challenger Aecio Neves. Rousseff and Social Democrat Neves traded accusations for an hour and a half, after which she began to complain of feeling light-headed as she left the rostrum.

• Thursday, August 28th 2014 - 06:51 UTC

  Marina leaps ahead in presidential debate; wants brightest minds to join her government

  

  A surging Marina Silva took Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff to task in an election debate Tuesday night when she touted her government's achievements in improving social conditions and defending wages in the midst of global economic crisis.