MEXICO, October 5 (RIA Novosti) - Over 140 million of Brazilians, who have a right to vote, will choose country’s new president on Sunday.
There are 11 candidates, hoping to take this post, however experts argue that only three of them have real chances to win the election. It is expected that the final decision would only be made after the presidential run-off. According to Brazilian laws, the second run is held when none of the candidates manages to get more than 50 percent of votes in the first run.
Brazil’s current President Dilma Rousseff, who represents the Worker’s Party, is said to be the main candidate. According to most recent surveys, over 40 percent of citizens plan to support Rousseff in first-round election.
Marina Silva and Aécio Neves are expected to contend for the second place, with Silva having support of 21.4 percent of voters according to the poll, and Neves getting 24 percent at the moment.
If none of the candidates gains an outright majority, the runoff will take place on October 26.
According to the MDA poll, Rousseff might get as many as 46 percent of votes in the runoff, while Neves could get 40 percent.
Rousseff's Workers' Party has held the presidency since the 2002 election of her predecessor and mentor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
If Dilma Rousseff wins the election, she promised to deal with unemployment, continue state involvement in the economy and provide further assistance to the lower classes with dedicated financial support programs.
On Sunday, voters will cast ballots via special electronic machines, which will enable to know the results within hours of poll closing at 5 p.m. local time (22:00 GMT) in the country's far west. Voting is mandatory for Brazilians aged 18 to 70, and optional for those as young as 16 or over 70. Over 530,000 voting devices are dispatched to reach all regions of the large country.
