Belén Marty – Pan AM Post, 10/28/2014
On Sunday evening, the Brazilian Superior Electoral Court officially declared President Dilma Rousseff the winner of a highly contested presidential election. Rousseff obtained 51.64 percent of the vote in the final runoff, defeating opposition leader Aécio Neves of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party. This means the Workers’ Party (PT) have secured their fourth consecutivevictory for Brazil’s highest office, and will remain in power until at least 2019.
As the campaign slogan “One, two, three, Dilma once again” rang throughout the PT headquarters in San Paulo, Rousseff took the stage on Sunday to celebrate her narrow victory. With a difference of just 3.4 million of votes, out of a total of 142.8 million people eligible to vote, Rousseff reaffirmed her commitment to dialogue and said she does not believe the election has divided the country.
“This president before you is open to dialogue, and this is the first promise I make in my second term,” said the president. Rousseff addressed concerns over the nation’s economy and promised the crowd of supporters in attendance to put the country back on track: “My friends, every election has to be seen as a peaceful and secure form of change for a country. Every election is a form of change, especially for us who live in one of the largest democracies in the world.”
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