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Rousseff Should Address Inflation, Economy, Corruption to Avoid Protests: Scholar

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Political scientist from the Getulio Vargas Foundation, Sonia Fleury considers economy as the main challenge for Dilma Rousseff who was re-elected as Brazilian president.

MOSCOW, October 27 (RIA Novosti), Daria Chernyshova — Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff, who secured victory in the presidential run-off Sunday, should tackle the issues of inflation, slow economic growth and corruption – factors that led to the slump in her popularity prior to the election, a political scientist from the Getulio Vargas Foundation told RIA Novosti on Monday.

“The protests can appear in case people see that their demands are not being attended by the government, and perhaps this will happen. We are facing a situation that is not comfortable for her [Rousseff] — problems in the economy, and lack of economic growth, we have inflation. Perhaps this can lead to protests and also corruption. If that continues to be a big issue, I think protests [will] erupt,” Sonia Fleury said, explaining that these are very similar to reasons that led to the slump in Rousseff’s popularity.

According to the Brazilian Superior Electoral Court, Rousseff won the 2014 presidential election with 51.56 percent of votes. With 99.2 percent of the vote count complete, her opponent, Aecio Neves, has 48.44 percent of votes in his favor.

“After the protest she could recover some popularity. But at the same time we had this big scandal with corruption, and I think this was the main issue for the people to decide for the other candidate,” Fleury explained.

Rousseff now has to make an effort “to rebuild bonds in her own party, as it is not as cohesive as it was.” Then, “she has to bridge with the opposition, which now represents half of the country. She has to create a bridge to this important group now.”

“She can try to be in touch with the government in Sao Paolo, the most important state that the opposition has, talking to him and trying to establish any kind of governance with the opposition,” Fleury said.

She pointed out that it would be wrong to say that the divide between the rich and the poor defined the results.

“I think there is division between regions, classes, but that what Brazil is. She [Rousseff] got votes all over the country and he [Neves] also. It is not black and white like this. It is not that the rich and the poor decided. The decision is of the big group of middle classes,” Fleury said, adding that the current situation resembles those in the ‘50s and the ‘60s, when Brazil was divided between two large parties.

“So this is a much more ideological spectrum, we have two groups with two ideologies regarding the development and social situation in the country. We have people more liberal who want to keep the privilege of the middle class, and they are much more concerned about their own position,” Fleury told RIA Novosti. “And the others, who are in favor of the not so liberal, who want the state to have an important position in pushing for development, but the kind of development with social inclusion.”

On Sunday, October 26 Brazilians voted in the second round of the presidential elections. Brazil’s economy remains the largest among Latin America nations as the country’s GDP currently constitutes 72 percent of regional trade bloc Mercosur and almost 55 percent of the region’s GDP.

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