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| Brazil\'s presidential election is to go to an October 31 runoff after the ruling party candidate, Dilma Rousseff (seen here with the governor of the state of Rio Grande, Tarso Genro), won elections Sunday but not by enough to avoid a second round. |
Brazil\'s presidential election is to go to an October 31 runoff after the ruling party candidate, Dilma Rousseff, won elections but not by enough to avoid a second round, the High Electoral Tribunal said.
Rousseff won 47 percent of the ballots Sunday -- short of the absolute majority of 50-percent-plus-one-ballot required to obviate a knockout round against second-placed challenger, former Sao Paulo governor Jose Serra.
"We can confirm there will be a second round in the presidential elections," Ricardo Lewandowski, the president of the High Electoral Tribunal, told reporters in Brasilia.
