Dilma Rousseff Sworn in for Second Term as Brazilian President

Dilma Rousseff has been sworn in for the second term Thursday to serve four more years as the president of Brazil during the inauguration ceremony that took place in the country’s capital of Brasilia has gathered about 70 foreign delegations and 27 heads of state.

MEXICO, January 1 (Sputnik) — Dilma Rousseff, who won the October 26 runoff election by the narrow margin of just three percent of the vote, has been sworn in for the second term Thursday to serve four more years as the president of Brazil.

The inauguration ceremony, that took place in the country’s capital of Brasilia has gathered about 70 foreign delegations and 27 heads of state, including Bolivian president Evo Morales and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. 67-year-old Rousseff arrived at the ceremony with her daughter.

In her inauguration speech Rousseff promised to focus on combating the extreme poverty and creating jobs. “Today we have the first generation of Brazilians that didn't live through the tragedy of hunger,” she said as quoted by Telesur. Rousseff also said she will continue to fight corruption and ease the tax burden for small businesses.

In 2010, left-winger Dilma Rousseff became the first woman in the history of Brazil to win the presidential elections. She assumed office in January 2011. Since then the country’s GDP growth dropped from 7.5 percent to almost zero. The experts partially explain the slide with Rousseff’s ambitious social programs, targeting the poorest and the tremendous spending at FIFA World Cup championship that Brazil hosted in the summer of 2014.