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As the two presidential candidates appeared for their first televised debate in the run-off period, a recent Datafolha poll shows Dilma Rousseff with 48 percent support to 41 percent for Jose Serra, the former governor of Sao Paulo...with 11 percent undecided.
Rousseff accused Serra of spreading “lies” about her views on abortion, and the two argued over past sales of state assets.
Serra, 68, denied he had any plans to privatize state-run oil giant Petrobras and then he attacked her on abortion.
“You clearly said you were in favor of legalizing abortion and then you changed and said the opposite,” said the pro-life Serra. “It’s about being coherent, and not two-faced, saying one thing and then another.”
REUTER'S Analysis Of Debate by Brian Winter:
"Rousseff, visibly angry over the recent emergence of abortion and her faith in God as major issues, at times looked more like the underdog as she went on the attack first and accused Serra of using "lies" and "slander" to close a gap that was as big as 20 percentage points in late August."
AND: "Until now, financial markets have treated the election as a non-event, since the outcome seemed clear... Serra's insistence that Brazil's currency is overvalued could cause volatility in foreign exchange markets if he draws closer in polls."
For MORE, SEE:
http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFN1110545120101011?sp=true
