{"id":59754,"date":"2014-10-27T05:44:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T05:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=59754"},"modified":"2014-10-27T05:47:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T05:47:57","slug":"brazil-re-elects-dilma-rousseff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/10\/brazil-re-elects-dilma-rousseff\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil re-elects Dilma Rousseff"},"content":{"rendered":"
Dilma Rousseff has been re-elected president of Brazil, after securing more than 51% of votes in the closest election race in many years.<\/p>\n
An official count showed her rival, centrist candidate Aecio Neves, taking just over 48% of the vote.<\/p>\n
In her victory speech, Ms Rousseff said she wanted to be “a much better president than I have been until now”.<\/p>\n
She faced protests last year against corruption, record spending on the football World Cup and poor services.<\/p>\n
Ms Rousseff, who has been in power since 2010, is popular with poor Brazilians thanks to her government’s welfare programmes.<\/p>\n
Political reform<\/span><\/p>\n But the vote split Latin America’s biggest country almost evenly in two, along lines of social class and geography.<\/p>\n Ms Rousseff called on all Brazilians “to unite in favour of Brazil’s future” and said she would seek political reform.<\/p>\n “This president is open to dialogue. This is the top priority of my second mandate,” she told a cheering crowd in the capital, Brasilia.<\/p>\n