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Rousseff first woman to win Brazil's presidential election
Tuesday November 02, 2010 08:50:36 AM,
EFE
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Brasilia:
Economist Dilma Rousseff of the ruling Workers' Party (PT), Sunday
became the first woman to win the Brazilian presidential election,
garnering 55.92 percent of the total votes, with 98.55 percent of
the ballots counted.
Her rival Jose Serra, of the opposition Brazilian Social
Democratic Party (PSDB), pulled in 44.09 percent of the ballots in
the runoff election, said Ricardo Lewandowski, President of the
Superior Electoral Tribunal, or TSE.
Lewandowski said that Rousseff's 11.9 percent advantage over Serra
made it impossible for Serra to catch up and snatch away the
presidency, even though all the votes had not yet been counted.
About 55 million Brazilians voted for Rousseff, with about 43
million casting their ballots for Serra.
Serra had earlier run for the presidency in 2002, losing on that
occasion to now outgoing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who
is the mentor of Rousseff, 62.
In 2002, Lula garnered 61.4 percent of the votes to Serra's 38.6
percent. The 65-year-old president is barred from serving more
than two consecutive terms.
"I have no doubt that she (Rousseff) is going to make a great
government for this country," Lula told reporters after casting
his ballot in Sao Bernardo do Campo, an industrial city in the Sao
Paulo metro area.
Rousseff voted in the southern city of Porto Alegre.
"Tomorrow, a new phase of democracy begins and the people who
assume the leadership of the country will have to have republican
sense and democratic sense to govern for everyone," Rousseff told
reporters earlier in the day, before the vote count.
In the first round of voting Oct 3, Rousseff had already won 46.91
percent of the vote to Serra's 32.61 percent. Rousseff will take
charge in January.
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