Brazil's first-ever female President, Dilma Rousseff, has been selected by the Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, or PT) to run for a second term in the October election, Argentinian Infobae reported Saturday. "The time has come to move forward, a time of great change, my dear fellows. Brazil wants those, who have proved their ability to deeply change the country, improve the life of our people, to stand behind the changes," Rousseff said.
The PT leader, Rui Falkao, announced Rousseff's nomination in the presence of Brazil's ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, considered the so-called Godfather of the current head of state.
The Worker's Party, the largest left-wing policital body in Latin America, in power since 2003, also formed a coalition with the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (Partido do Movimento Democratico Brasileiro, PMDB), on Saturday.
Michel Temer remained the party's candidate for the vice president position.
The Worker's Party's current campaign runs under the slogan of "more change, more future" and the motto "starting a new historical cycle of change", in education, social policy and internal political structure of the country.
The leftists have withstood wide criticism lately over spending on the World Cup, which is taking place in the country between June 12 and July 13.
Rousseff assumed office on January 1, 2011 after winning the election with 55.49 percent of the vote on November 1, 2010.
According to public polls, 39 percent of Brazilians are ready to vote for the 66-year-old Rousseff in the October 5 presidential election. Her main competitor, the center-right Social Democratic Party candidate, Aécio Neve, has 21 percent of support among those surveyed, while Eduardo Campos, former Pernambuko governor and Socialist Party candidate, stands in third place with 10 percent of the vote.
Under the Brazilian Constitution, the president can be elected for two consecutive four-year terms.
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