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Opinion Polling In The Brazilian Presidential Election, 2010
Opinion polling for the 2010 Brazilian presidential election started as early as 2008. All polls conducted between 1 January 2010 and election day were registered in the Supreme Electoral Court (Brazil), Supreme Electoral Court database, as required by electoral law. The main nationwide polling institutes are Datafolha, IBOPE, Vox Populi, and Sensus. Election information The first round of the 2010 Brazilian presidential election was held on October 3, as part of the country's 2010 Brazilian general election, general election, with a second round between the two leading candidates on October 31. That happened because under Brazilian law, if none of the candidates receives more than a half of the valid votes, a run-off is held four weeks after the first round. The leading candidate, Dilma Rousseff, received 46.9% of the first-round vote, thereby making a second round necessary. In the election, Brazilian citizens eligible to vote chose their successor to then-President of Brazil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dilma Rindo
Dilma Vana Rousseff (; born 14 December 1947) is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the 36th president of Brazil, holding the position from 2011 until Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016. She is the List of elected and appointed female heads of state and government, first woman to have held the Brazilian presidency and had previously served as Chief of Staff of Brazil, chief of staff to former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from 2005 to 2010. Rousseff was raised in an upper middle class household in Belo Horizonte. She became a socialist in her youth and after the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état, 1964 coup d'état joined left-wing and Marxist urban guerrilla warfare, urban guerrilla groups that fought against the military dictatorship (Brazil), military dictatorship. Rousseff was captured, tortured, and jailed from 1970 to 1972. by Bradley Brooks, Associated Press, 31 October 2010. Retrieved from Internet Archi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
