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President Rousseff Loses Support as Rivals Grow

By Maria Lopez Conde, Senior Contributing Reporter

SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL - Once considered a landslide favorite for reelection this year, President Dilma Rousseff is facing an increasingly harder battle. A new poll from Datafolha showed last Friday, May 9th that Rousseff has lost support among the Brazilian electorate while her rivals' popularity rise ahead of the October elections.`

While Rousseff lost a seemingly small number, slipping one percentage point to 37 percent, her opponents made progress, especially the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) candidate, Aécio Neves, who rose by four percent to twenty percent of vote intention.

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