Rousseff Re-Elected on Call to Save Brazil’s Social Gains

Brazil’s re-elected President Dilma Rousseff promised “great changes” in her second term, starting with a plebiscite on political reform and open dialog with her critics, after winning the country’s top job by the tightest margin since at least 1945.

“Sometimes in history, narrow results produce much stronger and faster changes than very wide victories,” Rousseff said yesterday in her victory speech. “I will and I want to be a much better president than I have been up to now.”