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Sunday 5 October 2014
Brazilians to vote in presidential election
Polls show incumbent President Rousseff
defeating either rival by more than five
percentage points in likely runoff.
Brazilians are preparing to vote in Sunday's
presidential elections, with the main candidates
busy making a final push.
Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's incumbent president,
leads in opinion polls in the election run-up,
followed by Aecio Neves and Marina Silva,
an environmentalist.
According to a survey by pollster Datafolha,
Rousseff is holding on to her commanding lead
with 44 percent voter support.
Neves, a pro-business Social Democrat senator,
has 26 percent of voter support versus 24 percent
for Silva.
A separate poll by the Ibope research institute
showed Neves with 27 percent, Silva with 24
percent and Rousseff with 46 percent.
Meanwhile, the National Transport Confederation
had Rousseff on 40.6 percent, Neves 24 percent
and Silva 21.4 percent.
All surveys showed Rousseff defeating either
candidate by more than five percentage points in
a likely runoff, which will take place on October 26
if no candidate wins a majority of valid votes in
the first round.
The election, expected to be the closest in a
generation, is widely seen as a referendum on 12
years of government by Rousseff's Workers' Party
(PT).
The country is divided between voters loyal to the
PT for an economic boom that lifted millions from
poverty in the 2000s and those calling for an end
to the corruption scandals, poor public services
and four years of disappointing growth tainting
Rousseff.
Twist in race
For months Rousseff, 66, a former guerrilla who
was jailed and tortured for fighting the country's
1964-1985 dictatorship, looked poised to coast to
an easy victory.
However, the race was dramatically altered on
August 13 when the third-place Socialist candidate
Eduardo Campos was killed in a plane crash and
replaced by Silva for the presidential bid.
The proponents of change are now split between
Silva, 56, and Neves, 54, from the powerful Social
Democratic Party, which ruled the country from
1995 to 2002.
Silva, who belongs to Brazil's surging Evangelical
Christian community and says she wants to be the
diverse country's first "poor, black president," was
initially projected to beat Rousseff in a runoff but
has now slipped back into the spot Campos
occupied before his death.
Neves has, meanwhile, closed the 20-percentage-
point gap that separated him from Silva barely a
month ago, re-emerging as the top contender to
face Rousseff in the second round.
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