Protests a memory, Brazil opposition struggles to catch Rousseff


  • World
  • Monday, 09 Dec 2013

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff speaks during a signing ceremony of expropriation decrees and issuance of land tenure for maroon communities at the Planalto Palace, December 5, 2013. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - This year has been difficult for Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, but it hasn't been much easier for her opposition.

Brazil's PSDB party, the main rival to Rousseff's Workers' Party, failed to capitalize on a turbulent period marked by a sputtering economy and the widespread, often violent street protests against poor public services and corruption that rocked the country in June.

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