• Submitted by: manso
• international
• 10 / 31 / 2010

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10/30/2010. Campaigning for the Sunday's presidential election runoff will conclude today with the last television debate between Dilma Rousseff and Jose Serra.

Since their first televised debate on Oct. 10, Rousseff and Serra have crossed swords, but not exactly on their respective platforms.

Instead, both have focused on personal attacks relating to alleged acts of corruption, the privatization of state companies, religion and abortion.

Tonight's debate concludes the free electoral campaigning on radio and television.

On Saturday, candidates can meet with their electors, but they cannot speak at public events, and propaganda is strictly prohibited on Sunday, except what is carried by citizens.

More than 135 million Brazilians are eligible to vote for the person who will replace the charismatic and popular President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for the term beginning January 1, 2011.

So far, the four surveys by the same number of pollsters show Rousseff in the lead; if she wins, she will be the first woman president of this country.

Voting is compulsory in Brazil for people between 18 and 70 years and optional for older adults, illiterates, and young people 16-17, but the government is urging everyone to vote.
 
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