Brazil's President Wins Re-Election

[cal04]

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won a second term in a landslide victory Sunday with Brazilians rewarding their first working class leader after he helped ease grinding poverty while improving the economy of Latin America's largest country.

With 92 percent of votes counted, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had 61 percent support compared to 40 percent for the center-right Geraldo Alckmin, Sao Paulo state's former governor. Election officials said Alckmin would be unable to pull ahead even if he won all of the remaining votes.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6179300,00.html

[madrchsod]

1. i wonder if they`ll tell george the bad news

maybe tomorrow after nap time

[Fridays Child]

2. But the corporate media wrote him off. What happened?

:rofl: :woohoo:

[Zynx]

9. He was always favored.

From beginning to end.

[Fridays Child]

11. Not universally.

I don't have the details but a 2005 corruption scandal had some in the media very definitely saying that the Lula administration was a failure.

[Zynx]

15. He was always favored by political analysts though.

Polling and analysis always showed that Lula would win except for a brief time against Jose Serra, but he never ran for President.

[rinsd]

18. Shhhhhhh you are intruding on the fantasy world

[AlamoDemoc]

3. Good news, indeed...

[Judi Lynn]

4. Wonderful! A great deal was done to smear him, degrade his image

over and over, but it didn't work, did it?

This is not only good for his country, it's a jolt of support to ongoing Latin American progress toward a better way of living for the vast majority of citizens.

Unity is so much more important now after they have seen themselves picked off and dominated by ugly, greedy, violent right-wing monsters supported (controlled) whole-heartedly by US right-wing fools, clowns, imbeciles, and monsters.

Their awakening to self-determination is underway, and it should continue at all costs.

[1932]

14. Sylvia Puggioli on NPR was particularly brutal, IIRC

In NPR's opinion, the only reason Brazillians could like Lula was because they couldn't care less about corruption.

[cosmicone]

5. Chimpenführer will say to the CIA....

what happened to the brazilians we spent there to unseat Lula?

[bemildred]

6. Sounds like a mandate to me. nt

[Ediacara]

7. Brazil re-elects President Lula

Brazil re-elects President Lula


President Lula was cheered by
supporters after voting in Sao Paulo

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been re-elected in a landslide victory, in the second round of presidential elections.

With nearly all the votes counted, the Brazilian electoral court said Lula had won 60% against rival Geraldo Alckmin.

Election officials said Mr Alckmin would not be able to pull ahead even if he won all of the remaining votes.

Correspondents say voters gave Lula another term for his efforts to ease poverty while improving the economy.

Votes in Sunday's run-off were cast using electronic ballot boxes, allowing officials to deliver a swift result.

More at the BBC

[goforit]

8. whooo hoooo!

[Blue_Tires]

10. great news

[unkachuck]

12. das ist gut!....n/t

[cal04]

13. Brazil's champion of poor is voted into power again

BRAZILIAN voters handed their first left-wing President a resounding endorsement yesterday, electing him to a second four-year term in charge of South America’s largest nation.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was declared the winner 20 minutes after polls closed, when his lead over his opponent, Geraldo Alckmin, a former governor of São Paulo state, surpassed votes waiting to be counted.

With 98 per cent of votes counted, Senhor da Silva leads with 60.8 per cent of votes against 39.2 per cent for Senhor Alckmin. The President won crushing victories in poor northeastern states and also took Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, the country’s second and third most-populous states.

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Brazil has one of the world’s largest gaps between rich and poor, and the President has made income redistribution the priority of his first four years in office. His flagship achievement has been the creation of the Bolsa Família (Family Purse) programme whereby the poorest families receive up to £24 a month in social assistance so long as they send their children to school and to be vaccinated.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2428559,00.html

[Odin2005]

16. From metalworker to president, whats the chance of that happening here?

I don't think we've ever had a president that started out as a blue-collar worker.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

17. Hell-OOOOOOOOhh ladies and gentlemen! Happy? WAIT -- there's MORE!

In December, it's Hugo Chavez who's up for reelection! Even more righties' head explosions fo our amusement!

But for now -- DRINK WITH ME! :toast:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

19. Kick coz the guy got a brazillion votes! -nt

[Vidar]

20. Liberty triumphs again in South America.