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As expected, most news outlets are profiling and prognosticating about today's expected presidential winner, Dilma Rousseff. Here is the NYTimes' version.
“Dilma will not be Lula II,” said Roberto Mangabeira Unger, a former minister of strategic affairs under Mr. da Silva. “She is a different person; it’s a different moment, and it’s a different job.”
AND: "Many analysts credit her with saving Mr. da Silva’s second term. In 2005, when a vote-buying scandal involving José Dirceu, the former chief of staff, threatened to bring down the presidency, she stepped in to replace Mr. Dirceu and helped steer the government back on course, analysts said."
AND: “Dilma isn’t interested in international prestige; she doesn’t care if she is seen as a great world leader,” said Rubens Barbosa, Brazil’s former ambassador to London and Washington. “In the first few years of her administration she is going to concentrate more on domestic and economic policy, and less on taking the lead in international relations.”
FOR THE GUARDIAN 'S TAKE, SEE:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/31/dilma-rousseff-brazil-female-president
