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Dilma Rousseff venceu José Serra na segunda volta das eleições presidenciais do Brasil, e será a primeira mulher a ocupar a cadeira presidencial no Brasil quando em Janeiro tomar posse. Mas a Sra. Rousseff também representa a velha guarda: é o produto de uma geração de políticos que se formaram durante a ditadura militar. A sua vitória sobre o Sr. Serra, outro sobrevivente da época, foi sem surpresa. No entanto seu desempenho não foi tão forte quanto o do actual presidente Lula da Silva em 2006 (ver mapa interactivo). Alguns estados foram perdidos pelo Partido Dos Trabalhadores. Um facto importante, já que até um Presidente popular como o Sr. Lula achou o Brasil um país difícil de governar. Provavelmente, Dilma Rousseff vai o achar muito mais difícil.
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Escreve Taylor Barnes na Foreign Policy:
[…] Rousseff didn’t, for example, campaign on her personal history to the extent that Bachelet did. Although both candidates suffered under harsh regimes, Bachelet received wide sympathy for having watched her father die under Chile’s military dictatorship and having lived in exile herself.
By comparison, “Dilma tended to keep her [history] really quiet,” says Hakim, which he suspects is because of lingering questions over just how militant she was. Rousseff’s role with an outlawed guerrilla group has long been up for debate. Military records of the time call her the “Joan of Arc of subversion,” but others write off that characterization, arguing that reports were intentionally exaggerated so that she could be touted as a great catch once she was arrested. Rousseff herself has denied ever taking up arms.
[…] Rousseff joins a line of female executives taking office in Latin America, including Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in Argentina and Laura Chinchilla in Costa Rica. Former first lady Mirlande Manigat is a front-runner in Haiti’s Nov. 28 elections. But while Rousseff is already being called “the most powerful woman in the world” and Brazil’s “Iron Lady,” the fact that she’s the first viable female candidate here meant less to most voters than the fact that she’s touted by the most popular male one. In fact, she had more support from men than from women during the campaign — an Oct. 21 Datafolha poll showed 59 percent of male voters saying they’d choose her, compared with 52 percent of females — perhaps due to the fact that she campaigned on being the first female president while not directly addressing gender issues much in her platform. […]
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