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Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff Sees Rise in the Polls

Saturday, September 13, 2014 9:22

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Support for incumbent Dilma Rousseff is on the rise after dipping for several weeks with former Environment Minister Marina Silva’s entry into the Brazilian presidential race, a poll released Friday indicates.

The survey, taken by the Ibope Institute on behalf of the National Confederation of Industry, shows Rousseff getting 39 percent of the vote in the Oct. 5 balloting, followed by Silva with 31 percent and Sen. Aecio Neves with 15 percent.

Earlier results gave Rousseff 37 percent, compared with 33 percent for Silva.

With no candidate receiving the majority needed for outright victory, the top two vote-getters will face each in an Oct. 26 runoff.

Coming up to the runoff, Silva and Rousseff are in a technical tie with 43 percent and 42 percent, respectively, according to the poll taken by Ipope this week.

A survey taken last week had Silva winning the runoff by a margin of 46 percent to 39 percent.

The new Ibope poll confirms a comeback by the head of state, already indicated by other studies released this week and which show no headway being made by Silva, who emerged as the favorite when the PSB nominated her as its candidate to replace Eduardo Campos, killed in a plane crash on Aug. 13.

Despite the president’s apparent recovery, Ibope notes that voters who say that under no circumstances will they vote for Rousseff jumped from 31 percent last week to 42 percent this week, while the rejection index for Silva rose from 12 percent to 26 percent at the same time.

Brazil’s first woman president was elected in 2010 with strong support from outgoing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, founder of the Workers Party and Rousseff’s political mentor.

Silva, an Afro-Brazilian, served as environment minister for part of Lula’s 2003-2011 term. She finished third in the 2010 presidential election as leader of the Green Party.

Published in Latino Daily News