Dilma promises Brazilian voters what they want: Continuity

Overview

The 31 October presidential election victory of Lula’s hand-picked candidate Dilma Rousseff represented a strong mandate from the Brazilian electorate for a continuation of the governing Workers’ Party’s economic and social policy agenda. Aided by a three-fifths majority of allied parties in both Houses of Congress, which Lula lacked, she will have a chance to enact landmark legislative changes over the next four years. But the significant improvements in poverty reduction and spending...