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Brazil braces for closest polls in decades

AFP, Brasilia
Brazil's presidential election took another dramatic turn yesterday on the eve of the first-round vote as the final opinion poll showed popular environmentalist Marina Silva losing her second-place spot.
Silva, who once looked set to be Brazil's next
president after replacing late Socialist Eduardo
Campos following his death in an August plane crash, slipped to third behind incumbent Dilma Rousseff and Social Democrat Aecio Neves in the survey by the National Transport Confederation (CNT).
The poll, the last before today's first-round vote, gave Rousseff 40.6 percent,
Neves 24 percent and Silva 21.4 percent.
But the gap between business sector favorite Neves and popular environmentalist Silva was within the margin of error of plus or minus 2.2 percentage points.
In a prospective second round, the CNT had Rousseff defeating Neves 46 percent to 40.8 percent, with the remaining voterseither undecided or spoiling their ballots, in a country where voting is mandatory.
In a run-off between Rousseff and Silva,
the incumbent would win 47.6 percent to 37.9 percent, it found.
The election, set to be the closest in a
generation, is widely seen as a referendum on 12 years of government by Rousseff’s
Workers' Party (PT).
The vast country is divided between voters loyal to the PT for an economic boom that lifted millions from poverty in the 2000s and those calling for an end to the corruption scandals, poor public services
and four years of disappointing growth tainting Rousseff.
For months Rousseff, 66, a former guerrilla who was jailed and tortured for fighting the country's 1964-1985 dictatorship, looked likely to coast to an easy if unenthu-siastic victory. But the race was dramatically upended in August when then third place candidate Eduardo Campos of the Socialist Party was killed in a plane crash.