Polls Show Brazil President Winning Reelection in First Round

Brazilian president Dilma RousseffDilma Rousseff, the president of Brazil, leads comfortably vote intention according to two public opinion polls published by leading newspapers, which indicate that she would have an easy win in the first round of the 2014 presidential election.

The poll from the Brazilian Institute of Public Opinion, Ibope, and published by O Estado de S. Paulo shows that 35% spontaneously even before presenting the list of possible candidates, said they would support Rousseff in 2014, which is three times the sum of all other presidential hopefuls vote intention.

Likewise the 35% is far ahead of the percentages registered by Brazilian presidents since the return of democracy in 1985 and as now 18 months ahead of the presidential election. Furthermore Dilma has more people willing to vote for her than those who discard such an option.

Regarding ‘stimulated’ vote-intention and when presented with the list of possible candidates, the percentage of support for Dilma jumps to 53 to 60%, depending on the different rivals.

In the poll published by DataFolha (from São Paulo), the president is 42 percentage points ahead of former Environment minister Marina Silva. This opinion poll also confirms that Dilma would be elected in the first round with an ample difference over Silva who collects 16% vote intention.

However it must be pointed out that so far none of the two ladies have officially established their intention to run for the presidential office.

Ms Silva a former member of the ruling Workers Party and who later affiliated to the Green Party to dispute the presidency in 2010 was third in that election with 20 million votes (19.3% of ballots) and is now working to form a new political party.

In the DataFolha poll, Senator Aecio Neves from the main opposition party, PSDB (Party of the Brazilian Social Democracy) was third with 10% vote intention and Pernambuco governor Eduardo Campos from the Brazilian Socialist party and an ally of the ruling coalition garnered 6%.

In the previous opinion poll from December, Rousseff support was 54%, Silva, 18%, Neves, 12% and Campos, 4%.

The two public opinion polls were done on March 20/21, interviewing over 2,000 people through out the vast country and with a plus/minus two percentage points error margin.

Mercopress

 

Tags:

You May Also Like

Brazilian Exports More than Double in Four Years, Imports Grow 94%

Foreign trade hit new record highs in Brazil in 2006. Exports surpassed the goal ...

Brazil Says North Korea Has No Excuse to Blast Its A-Bomb

The Brazilian government "vehemently" condemned today the nuclear test announced by North Korea. Brazil’s ...

Computers are reading the future

h2>In Brazil these days, fortune tellers, palm readers, astrologers and all types of future ...

Ever So Slowly Brazilian Women Are Catching Up to Their Male Peers

Neither Giselle, nor destitute homeless. A new portrait of Brazilian women emerges from a ...

Brazil Starts Changing Direction with a Greater Dollar Influx

Brazil started the month registering greater inflow than outflow of dollars. According to figures ...

Europe Bans Brazilian Honey

Starting this Friday, March 17, Brazil will not be allowed to export honey to ...

Brazil Tries Tailor-Made Tourism

Brazil’s Ministry of Tourism is conducting surveys in international markets to define the preferences ...

Brazil’s Eletrobrí¡s to Invest at Least US$ 16 Billion in 4 Years

Brazil's state-owned energy company, Eletrobrás may review up the volume of investment of 30 ...

Brazil on a Roll: US$ 100 Billion in Exports in 2005

The Brazilian minister of Development, Industry, and Foreign Trade, Luiz Fernando Furlan, said on ...

Brazilian Ecodesigner Brings Art Out of Wood Scrap and Damaged Trees

Pedro Petry, a Brazilian ecodesigner, is a pioneer in the research and use of ...