Tag: General elections

• Wednesday, October 20th 2010 - 03:33 UTC

  Dilma Rousseff seems back on track and leads with 51% vote intention

  

  The Brazilian ruling party candidate Dilma Rousseff has widened her lead ahead of a presidential runoff vote on October 31, a poll showed, suggesting her campaign may be back on pace after a rough two weeks in which she appeared to be back-pedalling

• Monday, October 18th 2010 - 21:18 UTC

  Brazil’s king-maker prefers to remain ‘independent”: decision favours Dilma

  

  Brazil’s Green Party decided Sunday to remain independent in the presidential runoff election on October 31.
  The third-place finisher in the first round, Marina Silva said she would not support either Dilma Rousseff, a former cabinet chief, or the opposition candidate, José Serra, a former governor of São Paulo.

• Monday, October 18th 2010 - 00:09 UTC

  Abortion debate in Brazilian campaign has both candidates on the defensive

  

  Brazilian opposition presidential candidate Jose Serra denied his Chilean wife Monica Allende had an abortion and compared the claim with the “defamation” suffered by President Lula da Silva when he was a candidate in 1989.

• Friday, October 15th 2010 - 06:15 UTC

  Serra closes in as presidential debate moves to abortion away from the economy

  

  Brazilian opposition presidential candidate Jose Serra seems to be successfully targeting religious voters as he closes the 14 percentage points of the first round ahead of the runoff at the end of October.

• Saturday, October 9th 2010 - 00:38 UTC

  Abortion becomes an issue in the Brazilian presidential run-off

  

  Brazil’s ruling party candidate Dilma Rousseff is playing up her Roman Catholic background in efforts to win back religious voters, whose doubts about her faith and position on abortion rights may have cost her an outright victory in Sunday’s presidential election.

• Wednesday, October 6th 2010 - 05:26 UTC

  Woman power in Brazil: Dilma could still win and Marina holds key of run-off

  

  Brazilian political analysts are trying to explain way Sunday’s electoral party went sour for Dilma Rousseff and her mentor Lula da Silva, the most popular president of the country in the last six decades.

• Wednesday, October 6th 2010 - 02:20 UTC

  Brazil’s most voted federal Deputy could be barred from Congress for illiteracy

  

  The candidate who won the most votes in Brazil’s Sunday general elections, Tiririca the clown, will have to show electoral authorities that he can read and write to avoid his electoral victory being annulled, an elections official said.

• Tuesday, October 5th 2010 - 03:06 UTC

  Brazil’s Greens confident they hold the key to Lula da Silva’s successor

  

  Brazil’s Green party considers that their presidential candidate Marina Silva and her demands in support of an environmental policy will be decisive in the run off between the ruling Workers Party Dilma Rousseff and runner up Jose Serra from the Social Democracy of Brazil (PSDB).

• Tuesday, October 5th 2010 - 01:34 UTC

  Professional clown “Tiririca” the most voted member of the Brazilian congress

  

  Brazil's incoming Congress will have to make room for a colourful new member: a professional clown who won the most number of votes: over 6% of all ballots in the state of Sao Paulo.

• Monday, October 4th 2010 - 03:44 UTC

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

  

  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.