Dilma Rousseff
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Chair of the New Development Bank | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Assumed office 24 March 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Marcos Prado Troyjo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
President of Brazil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In office 1 January 2011 – 31 August 2016 Suspended: 12 May 2016 – 31 August 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vice President | Michel Temer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Michel Temer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil | 14 December 1947||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Political party | PT (2001–present) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other political affiliations | PDT (1979–2001) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spouses | Cláudio Galeno Linhares
(m. 1967; sep. 1969)Carlos Paixão de Araújo
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Children | Paula Rousseff | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dilma Vana Rousseff (Brazilian Portuguese:
Rousseff was raised in an
After her release, Rousseff rebuilt her life in Porto Alegre with her husband Carlos Araújo.[3] They both helped to found the Democratic Labour Party (PDT) in Rio Grande do Sul, and participated in several of the party's electoral campaigns. She became the treasury secretary of Porto Alegre under Alceu Collares, and later Secretary of Energy of Rio Grande do Sul under both Collares and Olívio Dutra.[3] In 2001, after an internal dispute in the Dutra cabinet, she left the PDT and joined the Workers' Party (PT).[3]
In 2002, Rousseff became an energy policy advisor to presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who on winning the election invited her to become his minister of energy.[3] After chief of Staff José Dirceu resigned in 2005 in a political crisis triggered by the Mensalão corruption scandal, Rousseff became chief of staff and remained in that post until 31 March 2010, when she stepped down to run for president.[3] She was elected in a run-off in 2010, beating Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) candidate José Serra. In 2014 she won a narrow second-round victory over Aécio Neves, also of PSDB, to serve her second term as president.[5]
On 5 August 2018, the PT officially launched Rousseff's candidacy for a seat in the
Early life
Childhood and family profile
Dilma Vana Rousseff was born in
Pedro Rousseff was a contractor for Mannesmann steel in addition to building and selling real estate. The family lived in a large house, had three servants, and maintained European habits. The children had a classical education with both piano and French lessons. After they overcame the initial resistance of the community to accepting foreigners, the family attended traditional clubs and schools.[citation needed]
Education and early political awareness
Rousseff was enrolled in preschool at the Colégio Izabela Hendrix and primary school at Colégio Nossa Senhora de Sion, a girls' boarding school run by nuns, who primarily taught in French. Her father died in 1962, leaving behind about fifteen properties.[22]
In 1964 Rousseff left the conservative Colégio Sion and joined the Central State High School, a co-ed public school where the students often protested against the dictatorship that had been established after the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état. In 1967 she joined Worker's Politics (Portuguese: Política Operária—POLOP), an organization founded in 1961 as a spinoff of the Brazilian Socialist Party. Its members found themselves divided over methods; some wanted to advocate for the election of a constituent assembly, but others advocated an armed struggle.[24] Rousseff joined the second group, which became the National Liberation Command (Portuguese: Comando de Libertação Nacional—COLINA). According to Apolo Heringer Lisboa , leader of Colina in 1968 who taught Marxism to Rousseff in high school, she chose armed struggle after reading Revolution inside the Revolution by Régis Debray, a French intellectual who had moved to Cuba and become a friend of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Heringer says that "the book inflamed everybody, including Dilma".[22]
During that period, Rousseff met Cláudio Galeno Linhares, a brother-in-arms five years her senior. Galeno, who had joined POLOP in 1962, had served in the Army, participating in the uprising of sailors against the military coup, for which he had been arrested in Ilha das Cobras. They married in 1968 in a civil ceremony, after dating for one year.[22]
Guerrilla activity, 1968–1969
Colina
Rousseff participated in
In early 1969 the Minas Gerais branch of Colina had only a dozen militants, little money, and few weapons. Its activities boiled down to four bank robberies, some stolen cars and two bombings, with no casualties. On 14 January, after some arrests during a bank robbery, they gathered to debate what to do to release them from jail. At dawn, the police invaded the group's house and they responded by using a machine gun, which killed two policemen and wounded another.[22]
Rousseff and Galeno then began sleeping each night in a different location, since their apartment had been visited by one of those arrested. They returned home secretly to destroy documents so when in March 1969, the police searched the apartment, no documents were found. They stayed in Belo Horizonte a few more weeks trying to reorganize Colina, but had to avoid their parents' houses, since these were watched by the military. (Rousseff's family had no knowledge of her participation in underground activities). In addition, Galeno had to undergo facial plastic surgery or a similar procedure (although he denies this) after a sketch of him was released for participating in a bank robbery.[
There were many people from Minas Gerais in the Rio de Janeiro cell of Colina (including now-former Belo Horizonte mayor
Araújo, son of a prominent labor defense lawyer, had joined the PCB early. He had traveled through Latin America, met Castro and
Revolutionary Armed Vanguard Palmares (VAR Palmares)
We fought and participated in a dream to build a better Brazil, we learned a lot. We did a lot of nonsense, but that is not what characterizes us. What characterizes us is to have dared to want a better country.
Carlos Araújo was chosen as one of the six leaders of VAR Palmares, a "political-military organization of
According to Maurício Lopes Lima, a former member of Operação Bandeirantes (OBAN) – a para-legal structure which included the intelligence and torture services of the Armed Forces—Rousseff was the primary leader of VAR Palmares, and he received reports calling her "one of the brains" of the revolution. Police commissioner Newton Fernandes, who investigated the clandestine organization in São Paulo and profiled dozens of their members, said that Rousseff was one of the principal masterminds. The attorney who prosecuted the organization called her "Joan of Arc of subversion", saying that she led strikes and advised[clarification needed] bank robberies.[27] She was also dubbed "the she-pope of subversion", a "political criminal" and a "female figure of sadly notable aspect".[22] Rousseff ridicules such comparison, stating that she does not even remember many of the actions attributed to her.[28] According to her former comrade and current colleague, Environment Minister Carlos Minc, her role in the group was sensationalized. "Because she is a very important person, they'll say anything about her."[29]
Rousseff has sometimes been described as the mastermind of the theft of a
In 1969,
Even with large amounts of money, the organization failed to maintain its unity. At a conference held in Teresópolis between August and September 1969, there was a major dispute between those who supported the armed struggle and those who advocated working with the masses. Rousseff was in the second group. While the first group split into the paramilitary VPR, led by Lamarca, the second—including Rousseff—continued as VAR Palmares. There was a dispute over the money and weapons.[22] After the split, Rousseff was sent to São Paulo, where she was in charge of keeping her group's weapons safe. She avoided the risk of keeping them in apartments by moving with a friend (Maria Celeste Martins, who would become her chief of staff assistant decades later) to a simple boarding house in the eastern zone of the city, where they hid the weapons under their beds.[22]
Arrest (1970)
José Olavo Leite Ribeiro, who met three times a week with Rousseff, was captured by the military. As Ribeiro reported, after a day of torture, he revealed the place where he would meet with another militant, in a bar on Rua Augusta in São Paulo. On 16 January 1970, he was forced to go to the bar accompanied by undercover policemen, where his colleague was captured and, when they were preparing to leave, 23 year-old Rousseff unexpectedly arrived. Realizing that something was wrong, Rousseff tried to leave the place without being noticed. The officers suspected Rousseff and searched her, discovering that she was armed. "If it was not for the gun, it is possible that she could have escaped," says Ribeiro.[22] Rousseff was considered a big enough catch that a military prosecutor labeled her the "Joan of Arc" of the guerrilla movement.[4]
Rousseff was taken to the OBAN headquarters, the same place where
Carlos Araújo was arrested on 12 August 1970. After Rousseff was captured, he had an affair with actress and fellow militant Bete Mendes. After his arrest, he met Rousseff on several occasions, during journeys regarding the military lawsuits both were being prosecuted for. For a few months they were even in the same prison in São Paulo, where during conjugal visits they reconciled, planning to resume married life after being released from jail.[22] Rousseff was convicted in the first instance to six years in prison. She had already served three years when the Supreme Military Court reduced her sentence to two years and a month. She also had her political rights suspended for eighteen years.[42]
In December 2006, the Special Commission for Reparation of the Human Rights Office for the State of Rio de Janeiro approved a request for indemnification by Rousseff and eighteen other prisoners in law enforcement agencies of the São Paulo state government in the 1970s.[43] In her request, a pivotal witness was Vânia Abrantes, who was in the same police car that transferred her from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro (Vânia was Araújo's girlfriend when he and Rousseff began to date).[22] Rousseff also requested compensation in the states of São Paulo and Minas Gerais, since she was arrested in São Paulo but taken for interrogation in the cities of Juiz de Fora and Rio de Janeiro. She also seeks damages from the federal government. The total compensation figure paid to victims of political persecution may be up to 72,000 reais. However, as her advisors have declared, the indemnification has a symbolic value to her, and Rousseff demanded the requests be tried only after her departure from public office.[42]
On 5 April 2009, an alleged criminal record of Rousseff containing notes about various crimes allegedly committed by her was published on the front page of Folha de S.Paulo published. The document would have been part of the file of the Department of Political and Social Order (Portuguese: Departamento de Ordem Política e Social—DOPS), the military regime's political police. Rousseff questioned the veracity of the file, claiming that it was a forged document, which led the newspaper to declare that it had not obtained the document from DOPS' file, but rather via e-mail and, thus, could not guarantee its veracity.[44][45][46][47] The record can be found on a far right-wing website which supports the regime.[48]
Life in Porto Alegre, 1972–1980
Rousseff left jail at the end of 1972. She was ten kilograms (22 pounds) thinner and had acquired thyroid disease.[49] She spent some time recovering with family in Minas Gerais, visited an aunt in São Paulo, then moved to Porto Alegre, where Carlos Araújo was finishing the last months of his sentence. She stayed in her in-laws' house, from which they could see the prison where Araújo was held. Rousseff frequently visited her partner, bringing him newspapers and political books disguised as novels. The Presídio da Ilha das Pedras Brancas was deactivated, and Araújo served the remainder of his sentence in the Presídio Central. Prominent lawyer Afrânio Araújo, Carlos' father, died in June 1974, prompting his friends to pressure the regime for the release of Carlos, which happened just a week later.[22][49]
Punished for subversion in accordance with decree number 477, considered the
Her political activism, this time within the law, resumed at the Institute of Social and Political Studies (
In 1978, Rousseff attended the
Private life
In 1968 she married journalist Cláudio Galeno de Magalhães Linhares, who introduced 20-year-old Rousseff to the underground resistance movement against the dictatorship. In the early 1970s, Rousseff separated from Galeno and started a relationship with Carlos Franklin Paixão de Araújo. She legally divorced Galeno in 1981.[53]
Rousseff and Araújo have a daughter named Paula Rousseff de Araújo born in 1976. Rousseff divorced Araújo in 2000.[53]
According to Rousseff, she enjoys history and is interested in opera. In the early 1990s, she enrolled in a course in Greek theater taught by playwright Ivo Bender.
She understands English very well when spoken slowly and can speak Spanish and limited amounts of French.[54]
Paula Rousseff
Paula Rousseff, born on 26 March 1976, in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, is the only daughter of Dilma Rousseff and her former husband, Carlos Araújo. Paula is a law graduate and holds the office of Labor Prosecutor in Porto Alegre.[55]
Paula Rousseff married business administrator Rafael Covolo in Porto Alegre on 18 April 2008.[56]
On 9 September 2010, Paula Rousseff gave birth to Rousseff's first
Health issues
At a press conference on 25 April 2009, Rousseff revealed that she was undergoing treatment to remove an early-stage axillar lymphoma, a cancer in the lymphatic system, which was detected in her left armpit during a routine mammogram. It was diagnosed as a diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, an intermediate-grade type, but her chances of being cured were up to 90%. She had curative chemotherapy treatment for four months.[58]
In mid-May 2009, she was hospitalized in the Hospital Sírio-Libanês in
After seven months of wearing a wig, Rousseff wore her natural dark brown hair at the 3rd Human Rights Program launch on 21 December 2009. She had announced in November that she would retire her wig as soon as her hair became more even. She said it was still "full of holes", which was why she "couldn't take [the wig] off there in Copenhagen, Denmark". She first publicly admitted to wearing a wig in May of that year, when she jokingly referred to it as a "basic little wig".[59][60]
Political positions
Although Rousseff states that her political thinking has changed drastically – from
Rousseff's views are mostly
When asked about the criminal prosecution against
Rousseff opposes
As a member of the
She also pledged to deepen the
In 2014, during the presidential elections, the president, Dilma Rousseff, supported the criminalization of homophobia, citing the "high rate" of acts of violence against homosexuals in the country.[72]
Political career
When the mandatory two-party system ended in the early 1980s, Rousseff participated, along with Carlos Araújo, in
Municipal Secretary of Treasury (1985–88)
Rousseff and Araújo devoted themselves to Alceu Collares' campaign for mayor of Porto Alegre in 1985. Much of his campaign platform and government plan was prepared at their home. After elected, Collares appointed Rousseff as the municipal Secretary of Treasury; this was her first job in the executive branch. According to Collares, Araújo influenced him on Rousseff's appointment, but her competence also contributed on his choice.[49]
In the gubernatorial campaign of fellow
Rousseff remained as Treasury Secretary until 1988, when she stepped out to dedicate herself in Araújo's campaign for mayor of Porto Alegre. She was replaced by Políbio Braga, which says that Rousseff persuaded him not to take office. She would have said that she could "not control these crazy people" and that she was leaving "before it taints my biography." While Collares remembers Rousseff as an example of competence and public transparency, Braga disagrees, stating that "she did not even leave us a single report, and the Treasury Secretary was a chaos."[49]
Araújo's defeat jettisoned the PDT of the local executive branch. In 1989, however, Rousseff was appointed director-general of the city council, but was dismissed by councilman Valdir Fraga, president of the local legislature, after arriving late for work. As Fraga later said, "I dismissed her because she had a problem with the time clock."[49]
State Secretary of Energy (1993–1994 and 1998–2002)
In 1990, Alceu Collares was elected governor, appointing Rousseff as president of the FEE, where she had been an intern in the 1970s. She remained in office until the end of 1993, when she was appointed Secretary of Energy and Communication through the influence of Carlos Araújo and his group. She remained in office until the end of 1994, the same time when her relationship with Araújo had ended, shaken by the discovery that another woman was pregnant with his child, Rodrigo (born in 1995). They later reconciled and remained together until 2000, when Rousseff moved alone to a rented apartment.[49]
In 1995, after the end of Collares' term, Rousseff departed from her political office and returned to the FEE, where she was the editor of the magazine Economic Indicators (Portuguese: Indicadores Econômicos). It was during this break from public offices that she officially enrolled in the Campinas State University PhD program, in 1998. That same year, the Workers' Party won the Rio Grande do Sul gubernatorial election with the support of PDT in the second round. Once again she was appointed Secretary of Energy, this time by Governor Olívio Dutra. As he later recalled, "I already knew and respected her. I also appointed her because she was in a more left-leaning stance inside the PDT, less populist."[49]
During the first year of the Dutra administration, the PDT had gained some high-ranking offices, but Brizola felt that his party had very little space in the government, responsible for a tiny portion of the budget. Unable to get more space inside the administration, PDT members of the government were pressured by the party leadership to step down. The formation of the political alliance for the 2000 Porto Alegre mayoral election was also a cause of friction among the two parties. They ended up launching each own a different candidate; PDT's was Collares and PT's was Tarso Genro. Rousseff defended the maintenance of the alliance which had elected Dutra, supporting Genro's candidacy, and claiming she would not accept "neoliberal alliances with the right-wing". Her critics said that she was being hypocritical, once she defended an alliance with Marchezan in the 1986 election. Genro defeated Collares in the second round and Rousseff, among other fellow PDT members, joined the Workers' Party. Brizola accused them of being traitors.[49]
During Rousseff's management of the Secretariat of Energy in the Dutra administration, the service capacity of the electricity sector rose by 46%.
Minister of Energy (2003–2005)
The issues related to the area of energy on the government plan of candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva were discussed in meetings coordinated by physicist and nuclear engineer Luiz Pinguelli Rosa. Another highlighted member of the group was Ildo Sauer. Both of them were completely opposed to the privatization of the sector, which was, in their opinion, responsible for the energy problems that the country was facing. Pinguelli invited Rousseff to join the group meetings in June 2001, where she arrived as a shy participant in a team formed by several professors, but soon stood out with her objectivity and good knowledge of the area. However, it was clear for everyone in the group that Pinguelli would become the Minister of Energy if Lula won the election.[49]
It was a great surprise for everyone that, after elected, Lula chose Rousseff as the incumbent minister. The President elect declared: "Already near 2002, it appears there a comrade with a little computer in her hand. We started debating and I realized she had a differential characteristic from the others who were there, because she came in with the practicality of the assignment of running the Secretary of Energy of Rio Grande do Sul. Then I was like: I think I found my Minister here."[49] Another factor which would have weighed heavily on Lula's choice was the sympathy that Antonio Palocci had for Rousseff, recognizing that she would have a much easier dialogue with the private sector than Pinguelli, in addition to her support of the Carta aos Brasileiros (Letter to the Brazilian People), agreeing with several market friendly changes in the Workers' Party. Dutra said he was consulted by Lula, and praised Rousseff's technical merits while Secretary of Energy during his administration. "I could have weighted the scale in her favor at that time, but from the transition government forward the merit is all hers," he recalled. After her appointment, she became very close to José Dirceu, appointed by Lula as the new chief of staff of Brazil.[49]
Her management of the Ministry was marked by the respect of contracts made by the previous administration, by her efforts to prevent further blackouts and by the implementation of an electric model less concentrated in the hands of the state, differently from what Rosa and Sauer desired. Regarding the free market of energy, Rousseff not only kept it as she expanded it as well. José Luiz Alquéres, president of Light S.A., praised the approach taken by Rousseff, which is, according to him, helping the segment as a whole. He criticized, however, the delay in the implementation of the new model, but said that this is the fault of the bureaucratic government machinery. Convinced that urgent investments in power generation were required so that the country would not face a general blackout in 2009, Rousseff entered in a serious clash with then Minister of Environment, Marina Silva, which defended the embargo on several construction sites, concerned with the ecological imbalance that they could cause. Dirceu had to create a team of mediators between the two ministers in order to try to resolve their disputes.[74]
A close friend of Lula, Pinguelli was appointed as president of
After becoming a Minister, Rousseff defended a new industrial policy from the government, ensuring that Petrobras' platforms had a minimum domestic content, what could generate 30 thousand new jobs in the country. She argued that it was unthinkable that a billion dollar building was not being made in Brazil.[75] The bids for the P-51 and P-52 platforms were then the first in the country to require a minimum domestic content.[76] The requirement was heavily criticized, on the grounds that it would increase the costs of Petrobras,[77] but Rousseff defended the country's ability to produce ships and platforms, stating that the nationalization rates of the platforms, which varied between 15% and 18% rose to more than 60% after the requirement.[78] Lula acknowledged that, from the perspective of the company, the costs did in fact go higher, but that Petrobras should not only target the immediate costs, but also the strengthening of national science and technologies.[79] In 2008, the shipbuilding industry as a whole employed 40 thousand people, compared to 500 people in the mid-90s, in part because of the nationalization requirement.[79] Brazil now has the sixth largest shipping industry in the world.[80]
Light for All program
Rousseff proposed to accelerate the goals of universalizing the access to electricity, which had a deadline of 2015, suggesting that 1.4 million rural households would get electricity access by 2006. She argued that it was a social inclusion goal that should be a part of Fome Zero, (Zero Hunger) and that it was not possible to assume that such a program would provide a financial return. During the Fernando Henrique Cardoso administration, a similar program, called Luz no Campo (Rural Electrification), was created to encourage agribusiness providing the funding by the recipient. The goal of the program was to provide electricity to over a million households, but as of early 2003 only half of them had been electrified.[81] According to Rousseff, the results of this program were higher in states where local governments subsidized it for the population.[82] She defended, then, a program heavily subsidized by the federal government, which should not only subsidize, but cover the costs for the universalization of electricity.[83] The subsidy, however, should be for the consumer, and not for the electric companies.[82]
The program was launched in November 2003, under the name Luz para Todos (Electricity for All), focused in regions with a low Human Development Index and toward families with total incomes equaling, up to, three times the minimum wage. The goal of the program was to provide electricity for 2.5 million rural households (approximately 12 million people) by the end of 2008. In October 2008, Rousseff acknowledged that the government would not be able to fulfill its goal in time, leaving 100,000 households behind. In April 2008, the government extended the program until 2010, in order to benefit another 1.17 million families. 49% of the program's connections are concentrated in the Northeastern region of Brazil, which represented, from January 2005 to May 2008, 37.8% of all new wiring in the region, making the Northeast surpass the Southern region in power consumption for the first time. Despite being initially advertised as being funded by the Federal Government, 90% of its cost is actually paid for by electricity consumers, through several tariffs on energy prices.[84]
Chief of Staff (2005–2010)
As Minister of Energy, Rousseff had the support of two key ministers of the Lula administration: Antonio Palocci and José Dirceu. After Dirceu resigned as Chief of the Presidential Staff due to his involvement in the so-called "Mensalão" scandal, instead of being weakened, Rousseff was chosen by Lula to be the new chief of staff. She took office on 21 June 2005, becoming the first female to assume the position.[49] As a former Energy Minister, she also holds a seat on the board of directors of Petrobras.[85]
According to Gilberto Carvalho, the President's private secretary, Rousseff, caught the attention of Lula for her courage to face difficult situations and for her technical skills. Franklin Martins, another guerrilla fighter-turned-minister, said Lula was very impressed with Rousseff's management of the Ministry of Energy, where she prevented another blackout. "Lula realized that she kept things moving," he said. By choosing Rousseff, Lula also prevented the political dispute between Palocci and Dirceu to succeed him, while Rousseff did not have such ambition for being a new member of the Workers' Party, and not belonging to any party faction, she moved about well in all of them. Rousseff said to Carvalho that being appointed as chief of staff was a much bigger surprise for her than being appointed as Minister of Energy.[49] In the opinion of Rio Grande do Sul senator and former governor Pedro Simon, since Rousseff took office, "seriousness is being imposed" in the Presidential Staff.[86]
After Rousseff took office, the U.S. Consulate General in São Paulo sent a long profile of her to the U.S. Department of State. It detailed several aspects of her life, talking about her past activity in guerrilla organizations, her tastes and habits, and professional characteristics, being described as a prestigious and detailed technician, with the reputation of a workaholic and a great ability to listen, but lacking political tact, turning directly to technicians rather than her superiors.[87][88]
2010 and 2014 presidential campaigns
On 13 June 2010, after more than two years of widespread speculation, Rousseff launched her
Rousseff's coalition,
Rousseff's candidacy was also supported by notable international figures, such as Puerto Rican actor
On 18 October 2010, Brazilian artists and intellectuals held an event in the Oi Casagrande theatre in
Brazilian newspaper Brasil de Fato, as well as magazine CartaCapital both declared support for Rousseff's candidacy.[103][104] Rousseff won the presidency by an approximate margin of 56% to 44%, and took office on 1 January 2011, as the first woman president of the country.[105] She became the third female head of government ever in the history of Brazil, and the first de jure female head of state since the death of Maria I, Queen of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves in 1816.
During her presidential campaign, Rousseff underwent a makeover, replacing glasses with contact lenses, undergoing plastic surgery and adopting a different hairstyle.[106]
On 26 October 2014, Rousseff was re-elected
- Bulgarian reaction
According to Bulgarian media, Bulgaria experienced "Dilma fever."[108][109] The local media followed the presidential race in Brazil closely, interested in the election of a half-Bulgarian to rule over the world's 5th most populous nation and 7th largest economy.[109] In an interview for the 24 Hours newspaper, Rousseff said that she "feel[s] tenderness and love for Bulgaria. I can even say that to a certain extent I do feel like I am Bulgarian, even though I have never been in the country where my father was born. My father died when I was only fifteen years old and I did not have the chance to learn Bulgarian."[110] In November 2010, an exhibition was held in Gabrovo about Rousseff's origins.[111]
After Rousseff's election, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov promptly invited her for an official visit to the country. During her inauguration, he reiterated the invitation.[112] Since her inauguration, Rousseff has received 21 letters from Bulgarian citizens.[113]
On 4 October 2011, President Rousseff visited Bulgaria for the first time ever for a state visit as well as for an emotional back-to-the-roots visit to the homeland of her late emigrant father.[114] She paid a visit to the grave of her Bulgarian half-brother, Lyuben-Kamen Rusev, whom she never met and who died in 2007 at the age of 78.[115]
Presidency (2011–2016)
Inauguration
Presidential styles of Dilma Rousseff | ||
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Reference style Excelentíssima Senhora Presidente[116] da República | "Her Most Excellent Madam President of the Republic" | |
Spoken style | Presidente da República "President of the Republic" | |
Alternative style | Senhora Presidente "Madam President" |
Dilma Rousseff was inaugurated as President of Brazil on 1 January 2011. The event – which was organized by her transitional team, the Ministries of
Until 21 December 2010, the publishing house of the
In addition to the formal ceremony, Rousseff's inauguration also featured concerts by five female Brazilian singers: Elba Ramalho, Fernanda Takai, Mart'nália and Zélia Duncan, and Gaby Amarantos.[125] The Ministry of Culture organized the cultural part of the event, having provided a budget of 1.5 million reais (around 800 thousand U.S. dollars) for it.[125] The concerts started at 10:00 am and stopped at 2:00 pm, with the start of the official inauguration ceremony.[126] The concerts continued from 6:00 to 9:00 pm.[126] Rousseff did not attend, as she held a reception at the Itamaraty Palace for foreign authorities attending her inauguration.[126] Each foreign authority had the opportunity to talk to her for 30 seconds.[126]
Cabinet
On 17 December 2010, Rousseff received from the Supreme Electoral Court a diploma attesting her victory in the 2010 presidential election, becoming the first woman in the history of Brazil to receive it.
Since she took office, Rousseff has changed the members of her cabinet members four times.[132] She has become the president which promoted the highest number of cabinet changes in the first six months of government.[132] On 7 June 2011, Rousseff's then chief of staff and influential PT leader, Antonio Palocci resigned from office due to a scandal involving his personal wealth evolution.[132] On the same day, Paraná Senator Gleisi Hoffmann (also from PT) replaced him.[132] Three days later, Ideli Salvatti – former Santa Catarina Senator for PT and Minister of Fishing and Aquaculture up until then – traded office with Luiz Sérgio – former mayor of Angra dos Reis and licensed federal deputy for Rio de Janeiro (both for PT) and Secretary of Institutional Relations up until that moment.[132] On 6 July, Alfredo Nascimento, then Minister of Transportation, left office after allegations that public works were being overbilled.[132] On 4 August, Nelson Jobim left the Ministry of Defense after an interview he gave to the Piauí magazine criticizing both Hoffmann and Salvatti.[133] Rousseff named Celso Amorim to replace him.[133] Jobim had previously declared to have voted on José Serra for president.[133] With the changes, the female presence in the cabinet increased to 26%, while the PT presence increased to almost 45%.
When she arrived at the presidential palace, Rousseff announced her desire to promote women to prominent roles in her government. This decision was mocked by the press, which called the government a "Republic of high heels". Others saw this declaration as hypocritical, as Rousseff had a cabinet consisting of only 24% women. The appointments depend on the political parties in the coalition, which – with the exception of the Workers' Party (PT) – do not support positive discrimination.[134]
Popularity
Rousseff maintained a majority approval rating throughout her first term.
In early 2015, Rousseff's popularity began to decline and in February 2015, a month before the
In July of the same year, her approval rating reached a new low (9%), while her disapproval rating reached 64%.[141]
Controversies
Petrobras scandal
In 2013 Jonathan Taylor blew the whistle on SBM Offshore NV, the Dutch company responsible for paying hundreds of millions of dollars to senior Petrobras personnel in bribes to win offshore oil and gas-related contracts, while Rousseff chaired the national oil and gas company.[142]
In March and April 2015 millions of protesters took to the streets during the
Amazon Basin hydroelectric dams
Rousseff's administration pushed to complete a number of
Working conditions for laborers on the projects were harsh, while pay was low despite a high cost of living at the remote construction sites. This led to strikes and other worker actions at several hydroelectric projects. In the spring of 2012, 17,000 workers at the Jirau Dam site went on strike for over three weeks, and later some began looting company stores, setting fire to dam structures, and destroying worker housing. Military troops eventually deployed to quell the rioting and end the strike.[151]
Meanwhile, multiple courts, offices and state governments continue to litigate to halt dam projects; the status of the Belo Monte project was reversed so many times via injunctions and appeals that only the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court remained[152] – along with, theoretically, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CIDH), the judicial body of the Organization of American States (OAS), which also called on Brazil to halt Belo Monte and other projects accused of human rights violations. However, President Rousseff had already recalled the Brazilian ambassador to the OAS, and furthermore withheld Brazil's annual contribution to the CIDH, approximately US$800,000.[153]
LGBT controversies
Rousseff was less popular with Brazilian
The Brazilian Supreme Federal Court ruled 10–0 in May 2011, with one abstention, to legalise same-sex civil unions[155] (see also same-sex marriage in Brazil). The same month, however, a spokesperson for President Dilma Rousseff announced that she had suspended distribution of sex education videos through the ministries of health and education, saying that "anti-homophobia kits", as they are known, were "inappropriate for children" and did not offer an objective view of homosexuality.[156]
Public service strikes
From 25 May 2012, Rousseff's government faced a number of strikes by public employees, especially university professors. The strike left millions of students without classes for months.[157] According to O Globo, a Rio de Janeiro newspaper, she believes private sector jobs should be prioritized by her government's policies.[158]
Status of domestic workers
In 2013, the government revised the status of domestic workers. The law now imposes a maximum working time of forty-four hours per week, the payment of overtime in case of overtime, a minimum wage, the possibility of taking breaks, health coverage and makes redundancy payments compulsory.[159]
International recognition
Rousseff was ranked fourth in
In August 2011, Rousseff was included in the
On 20 September, she received a
Award or decoration | Country | Date | |
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Grand Cross of the Order of the Balkan Mountains |
Bulgaria | 5 October 2011[168] | |
Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic | Spain | 19 November 2012[169] | |
Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru | Peru | 4 November 2013[170] | |
Collar of the Order of the Aztec Eagle | Mexico | 26 May 2015[171] | |
Grand Collar of the Order of Boyacá | Colombia | 9 October 2015[172] |
Impeachment
On 2 December 2015, Eduardo Cunha, president of the Chamber of Deputies, accepted a petition for Rousseff's impeachment.[173] A special committee held hearings and recommended that the full Chamber authorize presenting the charges to the Senate. On 17 April 2016, the lower house voted by the required majority of two-thirds of its members to present the impeachment petition to the Senate, and did so on 18 April 2016.
A Senate special committee concluded in a report that the accusation justified an impeachment trial and recommended an impeachment trial. On 12 May 2016, the Senate began the impeachment trial. Rousseff was notified and under the Constitution of Brazil automatically suspended from the presidency pending a final decision of the Senate.[6] Vice President Michel Temer assumed her powers and duties as acting president of Brazil during the suspension.[7][8]
On 31 August 2016, the Senate, sitting as a judicial body, voted 61–20 in favor of a guilty verdict, convicting Rousseff of breaking budget laws and removing her from office. Temer subsequently assumed the office and was sworn in as President of Brazil.[9][10]
In 2022, the judicial investigation into the accusations of accounting manipulations that were the basis for her impeachment was officially closed, as the Brazilian Federal Public Ministry (MPF) did not identify any crime or act of administrative irregularity.[174]
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Suspended president Rousseff during an interview withAlvorada Palace, 1 June 2016.
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Rousseff delivering her farewell address after being removed from office by the Senate, 31 August 2016.
Post-presidency
On 5 August 2018, the Workers' Party convention in Minas Gerais officialized Rousseff as a
Rousseff was an interviewee for the 2019 documentary The Edge of Democracy.[176]
On 24 March 2023, Rousseff was elected as the president of the BRICS-led New Development Bank. [177]
Election | Political result | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | ||
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2018 Brazilian Senate election in Minas Gerais Two candidates elected Electorate: 15,695,210 Turnout: 24,421,329 (77.80%) | DEM Majority: 48,206 | Rodrigo Pacheco | DEM | 3,616,864 | 20.49 | ||
Carlos Viana | PHS | 3,568,658 | 20.22 | ||||
Dinis Pinheiro | Solidarity | 3,251,175 | 18.42 | ||||
Dilma Rousseff | PT | 2,709,223 | 15.35 | ||||
Rodrigo Paiva | NOVO | 1,342,645 | 7.61 | ||||
Miguel Corrêa | PT | 1,282,946 | 7.27 | ||||
Duda Salabert | PSOL | 351,874 | 1.99 | ||||
Elio Lacer | PPL | 307,197 | 1.74 | ||||
Kaka Menezes | REDE | 86,771 | 0.49 | ||||
Alcindor Damasceno | PPL | 56,129 | 0.32 | ||||
Vanessa Portugal | PSTU | 53,272 | 0.30 | ||||
Edson André | Avante | 29,869 | 0.17 | ||||
2014 Brazilian general election Second round Electorate: 142,822,046 Turnout: 112,683,879 (78.90%) | PT Majority: 3,459,963 | Dilma Rousseff | PT | 54,501,118 | 51.64 | ||
Aécio Neves | PSDB | 51,041,155 | 48.36 | ||||
PSDC | 61,250 | 0.06 | |||||
Mauro Iasi | PCB | 47,845 | 0.05 | ||||
Rui Costa Pimenta | PCO | 12,324 | 0.01 | ||||
2010 Brazilian general election Second round Electorate: 135,804,433 Turnout: 106,605,942 (78.50%) | PT Majority: 12,041,141 | Dilma Rousseff | PT | 55,752,529 | 56.05 | ||
José Serra | PSDB | 43,711,388 | 43.95 | ||||
PSDC | 89,350 | 0.09 | |||||
José Maria de Almeida | PSTU | 84,609 | 0.08 | ||||
Levy Fidelix | PRTB | 57,960 | 0.06 | ||||
Ivan Pinheiro | PCB | 39,136 | 0.04 | ||||
Rui Costa Pimenta | PCO | 12,206 | 0.01 |
See also
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External links
Official
- Official website of Dilma Rousseff (in Portuguese)
- "Biography at Portal Brasil". Archived from the original on 4 December 2011. Retrieved 6 January 2011.
Media
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Dilma Rousseff at IMDb
- Profile at BBC News
- Dilma Rousseff collected news and commentary at The Economist
- Dilma Rousseff collected news and commentary at Forbes
- Dilma Rousseff collected news and commentary at The Guardian
- Dilma Rousseff collected news and commentary at The New York Times
- Interview with Dilma Rousseff Archived 22 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine at Jornal Nacional on 18 October 2010 (in Portuguese)
- Video report by Democracy Now!
- Video report by Democracy Now!
- Slideshow by Der Spiegel