By The Daily Journalist.
After an entire electoral career in the shadow of the female duo-Marina Dilma Aecio Neves, the PSDB, leapt more than expected getting a surprising 33.66% of votes in the first round of presidential elections in Brazil. They are ten points higher than polls on the eve of the elections. The short final distance achieved by the president, who scored 41.50% (about 40 million votes, seven more than Aécio) promises an exciting second round, as Rousseff will face not only Neves, but thousands of vows of retribution against their management.
Among them, perhaps the great majority of electors of Marina Silva (21.29%), after frustration will have to take a stand perhaps neutralized in the event next day 26 in 2010, when concurred by the Green Party abstained from supporting the president and former party colleague or José Serra. Silva’s dream of being president faded with the click of voters in the electronic ballot box, as well as breaking the hegemonic bipartisan alternation all well since 1995.
More than 142 million citizens had on their hand the destiny of Brazil, which also elected the vice president, 513 congressmen, 26 state governors and their corresponding regional deputies. The renewing energy that is breathed in marches June 2013 are not revived in the doors of polling stations. Brazil shouted as ever, but voted as always.
A few meters away from the polls irregularities ever and more. Hundreds of prisoners, including 22 candidates for the propaganda Election Day showed support for other candidates — a practice prohibited by the Superior Electoral Tribunal. Among pamphlets papered halls across the country, was the image of a constituent slipping and falling when stepped faint. The novelty of the season were the selfies campaign, which is scattered across social networks despite its illegality.
The amazing fresh air that came to Rio de Janeiro when the warmth of spring was expected did not cool the politics of the region, which will go to the second round with Peazo governor (PMDB) as a candidate. A little over a year, then-president of the same party, Sergio Cabral, lived besieged by protesters. Again, nothing to do with what is reflected in the polls.
In Sao Paulo Governor Geraldo Alckmin, representing the PSDB, renewed his mandate in the first round with about 60% of the votes. Sao Paulo is the most populous state and where Dilma suffered defeat against Neves. Instead, Rousseff initialed PT domain in the less developed Northeast, where social support has been critical poverty. And, more surprisingly, beat Neves in Minas Gerais state Tucano ruled with high approval for eight years. In addition, the new governor, Fernando Pimentel, the PT and also breaks the peseedebista hegemony in the second most populated region of Brazil.
In early September, had Dilma Silva and 37%, 33%. But Rousseff and her team launched the multi-million dollar communications equipment should destroy Marina. And it worked. Silva was weak, too sensitive, and bottomed in the polls on the eve of the election, with 21% of likely voters resurrecting Aécio Neves, the PSDB, hitherto out of all the pools. In the end, Brazil returned to bipartisanship in the polls, to the devil they know, and put aside dreams of renewal and new policy.
