In the run-off election on Sunday 31 October 2010 to determine the successor to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, ruling Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers' Party) candidate Dilma Rousseff won with more than 55 per cent of the votes. The South American nation, famed for its deep passion for football, will thus have a woman as its President for the first time.
Rousseff succeeds Lula, who steps down at the end of the year after a second four-year term of office. "I intend to be a President for all Brazilians," the 62-year-old declared after the announcement of the results.
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