A Female Candidate in Brasilia

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's second term will be up soon and it was announced today that Dilma Rousseff, his current Chief of Staff, would be the chosen candidate for the Labor Party. In a speech today, she vowed to maintain the economic principles that have seen the country prosper in the last couple years. She also vowed to expand state-funded services and to tax the wealthy. Da Silva was a very popular president with the Brazilian people and it is unclear if Rousseff will have the charisma to do the same. There are also questions about her political savvy. In a current poll, Sao Paulo’s Governor Jose Serra, of the opposition PSDB party led between 5 percent and 11 percent. Notably, if elected, Roussef would be Brazil’s first female president. Da Silva urged all the women of Brazil to get behind Rousseff and to challenge the latent discrimination still plaguing Brazilian politics.