[20141022]IN10157_巴西2014年10月总统选举.pdf

CRS InsightsBrazils October 2014 Presidential ElectionPeter J. Meyer, Analyst in Latin American Affairs (pmeyercrs.loc.gov, 7-5474)October 22, 2014 (IN10157)Brazil, the fifth most populous country and seventh largest economy in the world, held presidential,legislative, and state office elections on October 5, 2014. President Dilma Rousseff of the center-leftWorkers Party (PT) won a plurality of the presidential vote with 41.6%. Since she failed to win anabsolute majority, however, she must contest a second round runoff on October 26, 2014. She will faceAcio Neves of the centrist Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB), who finished second with 33.6%of the vote. The race appears to be headed to a close finish, and could lead to changes in theeconomic and foreign policies of a nation that the Obama Administration considers to be an emergingcenter of influence.Presidential RacePresident Rousseff was originally elected to a four-year term in 2010 after promising to maintain thepopular policies of President Luis Incio Lula da Silva (2003-2010), during whose administration theBrazilian economy expanded by an average of 4% per year, poverty and inequality were reducedsignificantly, and ne