I know you guys have probably had enough of us talking about the elections in Brazil, so I’ll be brief and won’t make you read too much.
The image below taken from Folha.com shows the presidential race results, the apuração dos votos. With no candidate having a majority vote, the top two, Dilma Roussef and José Serra will take each other on for a second round of elections on October 31st (click on the image for better viewing).
Although this was somewhat already expected, the real buzz generated has been on the number of votes Marina Silva was able to rack up considering back in March all sorts of studies showed only 7% of the population was planning on voting for her while Dilma and José Serra’s percentages stayed pretty much true to the actual results.
I was unable to “steal” videos on most news websites with thank you speeches from the candidates, but here goes a link to a great little thank you speech by Marina Silva last night: Estamos em primeiro lugar de uma nova política.
If you get a chance to watch the video (it’s 2 minutes long), why does Marina Silva consider herself a winner after not making it on to the second round of elections?
She has announced she will remain neutral for the second round, so this should be another interesting month of debate!
Comments:
Jeanne:
I’m so glad that we had 2 women running for President in Brazil, especially because both were among the top 3 favourites candidates for the first round of elections in a country known for it’s “macho”culture.
It’s seems that the world is changing, and the election of a black man to one of the most important countries in the world shows that people are finally overcoming their prejudice.
Harvey Nystrom:
At what temperature should the cake be baked?
How should the cake pan be prepared? Ungreased? Greased? Floured?
Francis:
I find the election postings to be very interesting break from our own mud slinging in the USA.
And Tiririca? Some of us in the USA think most of our politicians are clowns.
polyana:
thanks for the comments!!
and i agree with the clown part, haha – at least tiririca admits he’s a clown. the problem is in the brazilian government, a candidate can win extra seats for his party… which is unfortunately what happened with tiririca and now we’re going to have a bunch of congressmen with horrible records for gov’t $$ theft =/