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muriel_volestrangler

(101,392 posts) Sun Oct 26, 2014, 06:43 PM Oct 2014

Rousseff Re-Elected on Call to Save Brazil’s Social Gains

Source: Bloomberg News

Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff won re-election and stretched her Workers’ Party’s rule to a record 16 years by convincing voters her opponent threatened social gains she pledged to expand in her second term.

Rousseff, who has maintained record-low unemployment even as the economy posted the slowest growth under any Brazilian president in more than two decades, had 51 percent of the vote with 98 percent of ballots counted by the electoral court in Brasilia. Senator Aecio Neves, a former governor of Minas Gerais state, had 49 percent.

Read more: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-10-26/rousseff-re-elected-on-call-to-save-brazil-s-social-gains

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Rousseff Re-Elected on Call to Save Brazil’s Social Gains (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Oct 2014 OP

Article in the NYT today said the race turned really nasty. iandhr Oct 2014 #1

'social gains' ... Olympics. yes...... water. not so much ...nt quadrature Oct 2014 #2

Very, very good news for the vast majority of the population of Brazil. Thank you. n/t Judi Lynn Oct 2014 #3

Well. Very good new for the those making buckets of money.... Adrahil Oct 2014 #4

I fail to see how a more rightist government would have been an improvement on that front. Zynx Oct 2014 #5

You're right, It wouldn't but that doesn't mean this government is actually GOOD for the people. Adrahil Oct 2014 #6

iandhr

(6,852 posts)

1. Article in the NYT today said the race turned really nasty.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Sun Oct 26, 2014, 06:49 PM

Oct 2014

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/world/americas/dilma-rousseff-aecio-neves-brazil-vote-nears.html?ref=americas

quadrature

(2,049 posts)

2. 'social gains' ... Olympics. yes...... water. not so much ...nt

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Sun Oct 26, 2014, 07:10 PM

Oct 2014

Judi Lynn

(160,655 posts)

3. Very, very good news for the vast majority of the population of Brazil. Thank you. n/t

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Sun Oct 26, 2014, 07:24 PM

Oct 2014

Adrahil

(13,340 posts)

4. Well. Very good new for the those making buckets of money....

Reply to Judi Lynn (Reply #3)

Mon Oct 27, 2014, 07:36 AM

Oct 2014

...from the World Cup and the the Olympics, anyway. Everyone else? Less so.

Zynx

(21,328 posts)

5. I fail to see how a more rightist government would have been an improvement on that front.

Reply to Adrahil (Reply #4)

Mon Oct 27, 2014, 07:55 AM

Oct 2014

Those were the choices, by the way. The current government or a centre-right government.

Adrahil

(13,340 posts)

6. You're right, It wouldn't but that doesn't mean this government is actually GOOD for the people.

Reply to Zynx (Reply #5)

Mon Oct 27, 2014, 08:27 AM

Oct 2014

This government will STILL funnel billions to projects intend to boost Brazil's international "prestige," rather than fix some fundanmental structural problems in the economic structure.

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