Brazil presidential, legislative polls open

05 Oct, 2014

RIO DE JANEIRO: More than 142 million Brazilians went to the polls Sunday in presidential and legislative elections to cap a dramatic campaign.

Leftist incumbent Dilma Rousseff was expected to top the presidential poll but fail to secure the 50 percent necessary to avoid a run-off vote on October 26 against either social democrat Aecio Neves or environmentalist Marina Silva.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2014

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