Round Two of Brazilian Presidential Election

Dilma Rousseff, the successor of current Brazilian president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, gained a majority of votes in the presidential election on Sunday but did not gather enough votes to avoid a runoff. The runner-up, Jose Serra (a former mayor), garnered about thirty-three percent of the vote as opposed to Rousseff's fourty-seven percent, but Rouseff needed fifty percent of the votes to avoid this second-round runoff. Rousseff has an eighty percent approval rating, but this election may still be a close call.

- Matt Langerveld

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