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Brazil & Southern Cone - November 2014 (ISSN 1741-4431)

POLITICS: Neves, emboldened

Although he lost the presidential election, his better-than-expected performance has put Aécio Neves in a strong position to be the unofficial leader of Brazil’s opposition. The candidate of the right-of-centre opposition Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB) returned to the senate on 5 November to lay out his conditions for engaging in the “dialogue” President Dilma Rousseff promised following her electoral victory. Chief among Neves's demands is proper scrutiny of Petrobras, the state-controlled oil company.

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