BUENOS AIRES, October 26 (RIA Novosti) - On Sunday, October 26 Brazilians will vote in the second round of the presidential elections, choosing between Brazil's incumbent President and leader of the Workers' Party, Dilma Rousseff and the opposition candidate Aecio Neves, head of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party
More than 142 million people are eligible to vote on Sunday's elections which are viewed as defining for the future development of whole region.
In the first round of the presidential election on October 5 Rousseff secured 41.6 percent of the vote. Her opponent, Aecio Neves got 33.6 percent.
According to the poll by Sensus research institute published mid-October, 56.4 percent of those questioned would cast their votes for Neves whereas 43.6 percent would vote for Roussef. However, Rousseff enjoyed the narrow majority of 45 percent of votes against Neves' 43 percent in the polls released earlier in October by Brazil's Datafolha and Ibope polling institutions.
In recent days, both politicians have aimed their campaigns on trying to get the votes of those yet undecided.
On Sunday, 450,000 polling stations with 532,000 electronic voting machines of which 72,000 are equipped with biometric identification system will open in Brazil. About 15,000 militarymen will ensure the safety of elections. Brazilian voters are also electing governors in run-offs in 14 out of 27 states.
Experts believe that the results of Brazil's presidential elections will determine the political situation in the whole Latin America for years to come. Analysts say that the authorities of Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Argentina and Uruguay count on Rouseff to win, while the opposition in these countries support Neves and should he win will take this as a sign of major changes coming in the continent.
Brazil's economy remains the largest of the Latin America nations as the country's GDP currently constitutes 72 percent of those of the Mercosur bloc and almost 55 percent of the region's total GDP.
