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If I had to bet, I'd still plump for Ms Rousseff winning in the first round, but I'm not as certain as I was a week ago.

But it would be easy to overstate both the problems facing Ms Rousseff and the odds that she will fail to solve them.

Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's new president, last month made one of her first overseas trips to China in a bid to diversify trade.

President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil has replaced her defence minister after he made disparaging remarks about other senior officials.

Ms Rousseff said the problem was that at present there was no international rescue plan for the eurozone on the table.

But Lula campaigned beside Ms Rousseff, toured the country with her and was at least as visible in her television advertising as she was.

Dilma Rousseff, though, has two very unusual names, both of similar lengths, either of which could have been used as a tag.

In the run-up to her inauguration, Ms Rousseff also received pointed reminders of the difficulties ahead.

IN HER first seven months as Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff has already seen four of her cabinet members depart.

In her inaugural address, Rousseff even made a point of vowing to "maintain and deepen" ties with the U. S.

Ms Rousseff did not deserve to win by default just because she was Lula's hand-picked successor.

To fill that void, he said, he planned to change his name to Dilma Rousseff and run again.

Forbes cited Rousseff for her leadership of the world's eighth-largest economy and approval ratings within her country.

By appointing Mr Palocci in the first place, Ms Rousseff had sent a strong signal to investors that she could be trusted.

It has been chastening for Ms Rousseff and her party to have been checked in their triumphal progress towards an inherited presidency.

In a recent speech, Ms. Rousseff explained that her government's priority was lifting millions of Brazilians out of poverty.

Ms Silva is unlikely to be Brazil's next president, but she could well siphon off votes from Ms Rousseff.

His departure is widely seen as a portent of a more active industrial policy by the government of the country's president, Dilma Rousseff.

This might be dismissed as pre-campaign rhetoric to win over members of a party that Ms Rousseff joined only in 2001.

Ms Rousseff had never before run for elected office. Her entire political life had been behind the scenes.

Conversely, the electoral chances of Dilma Rousseff, Lula's chosen candidate, might be boosted by speedy approval.

In her first year in office, Rousseff dismissed five cabinet members and dozens of officials charged with corruption.

With the world economy deteriorating, whether Ms Rousseff can impose her authority on her allies matters a lot for Brazil's prospects.

Some economists believe the Rousseff administration pressured the central bank to cut rates prematurely-something the president denies.

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Though it has been smothered recently, Ms Rousseff in fact has an interesting political identity of her own.

In any event Ms Rousseff has started an important debate, which should reverberate over the next six months.

Ms Rousseff said her top priorities were to eradicate extreme poverty, and improve education and health.

The question that Ms Rousseff will have to ponder is whether seamless continuity is indeed the path to the presidency.

Ms Rousseff likes to talk things over with her predecessor.

Dilma Rousseff, the leading candidate to be Brazil's next president, has proposed expanding the model to other cities.

The affair has knocked only a few points off Ms Rousseff's commanding lead.

Ms Rousseff promised the new stadiums and other infrastructure required would be ready on time, despite major difficulties and delays.

With democracy restored, Ms Rousseff (who has been married and separated twice) settled down to a career in public administration.

JUST months after becoming Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff now faces a serious test in cooling off the country's red-hot economy.

And though Ms Rousseff's margin of victory was smaller than Lula's, she still has a strong mandate.

In her victory speech on October 31st Ms Rousseff promised to cut taxes, rein in public spending and control inflation.

The late switch from Ms Rousseff to Ms Silva may have been caused partly by a row about Brazil's abortion laws.

The first foreign trip made by Dilma Rousseff, the new Brazilian president, was to Beijing, not Washington.

Since the election Ms Rousseff has preached fiscal responsibility.

It was not Mr Serra but Marina Silva of the Green Party who denied Ms Rousseff a first-round victory.

Ms Rousseff has shown little sign that she is interested in making radical changes to this political-patronage system.

That voters who turned away from Ms Rousseff chose Ms Silva is bad news for Mr Serra's centrist Party of Brazilian Social Democracy (PSDB).

And abortion, until recently an electoral problem only for Ms Rousseff, is now a wild card.

But that seems unlikely: reports on his preferences for Ms Rousseff's appointments have already surfaced in the press.

Rousseff said the figures showed the government had "done its homework" in order to combat illegal rainforest destruction.

Building on Lula's progress, Dilma Rousseff certainly symbolises a new era for a country whose growth rates make the West envious.

Ms Rousseff will have to convince the doubters that she is not simply Lula in lipstick.

To this end, Ms Rousseff will be accompanied by 309 business leaders, one of Brazil's largest delegations.

BY NOW Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff, must be finding the script wearily familiar.

It's widely expected that Dilma Rousseff will emerge as the presidential candidate with the most support.

As a local energy official, Ms Rousseff kept the lights on after a drought in 2001 led to electricity rationing.

As Ms Rousseff herself proves, cancer survivors can be elected president in Brazil.

President Dilma Rousseff, visibly upset, rushed back from a summit in Chile and declared three days of national mourning.

Although recent polls differ widely, some say that Ms Rousseff's lead has shrunk to only five or six points.

Dilma Rousseff, Lula's chief of staff, describes the growth acceleration package as "public money direct to the vein. "

By November 23rd Ms Rousseff is expected to sign a law setting up a truth commission, passed by Congress in late October.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has announced a three-day national mourning period for the dead.

Rousseff has indicated she understands this, and has apparently let word be known she wants "diplomacy with results" .

Ms Rousseff is hardly charismatic, and has a weakness for offering half-hour answers to one-line questions.

Ms Rousseff's first priority during the five-day visit will be to build on a bilateral commercial relationship.

Mr. da Silva and his ministers, including Ms. Rousseff, admit that much still needs to be done.

Lula chose Ms Rousseff as his successor partly because more obvious alternatives were ruled out by various scandals.

Rousseff has said she would keep government spending under control but ruled out austere budget cuts.

WITH 46. 9% of the vote, Dilma Rousseff fell short of the absolute majority she needed to be elected president on October 3rd.

President Obama and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff during a meeting in Brasilia in March.

Though many among Brazil's rich elites revile both Mr. da Silva and Ms. Rousseff, the wealthy benefitted, too.

When Dilma Rousseff took office in Brazil early this year, the diplomatic community held its breath.

More plausible is that Ms Rousseff will simply continue to sack the most egregious sinners as they are brought to her notice.

Inflation is rising so quickly that Dilma Rousseff has declared it her main concern as president.

During her recent trip to China, president Rousseff urged Beijing to accept more Brazilian industrial goods.

Ms Rousseff has promised to do "whatever it takes" to control inflation.

When Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's president, visited China last month, she signed 20 bilateral trade and investment deals.

Mr Obama and Ms Rousseff have potentially important business to do.

In practice, Ms Rousseff may have to govern in Lula's long shadow.

Ms Rousseff had never before run for elected office.

"Housing in areas of risk is the rule in Brazil rather than the exception, " Rousseff told reporters.

So on January 1st Ms Rousseff will become Brazil's next president, and its first female one.

THE honeymoon Dilma Rousseff has enjoyed since becoming president of Brazil on January 1st has suddenly ended.

Hu met with Brazilian President Rousseff during her stay in Beijing on Tuesday.

The issue is a major test for the brand-new government of Dilma Rousseff.

Brazil President Dilma Rousseff's eight-month-old administration has fought a difficult battle to keep the real from rising.

Ms Rousseff looked nervous in the debate, and struggled to keep her answers snappy.

Both Mr Serra and Ms Rousseff are now courting Ms Silva, hoping to inherit her vote.

Ineligible for re-election, Mr. da Silva groomed Ms. Rousseff as his successor.

He is the second member of Dilma Rousseff's cabinet to quit within a month over corruption claims.

The almost certain winner will be Lula's hand-picked successor, Dilma Rousseff.

Q: Dilma Rousseff has been declared winner of Brazil's presidential election.

BARRING a political cataclysm, on October 3rd Dilma Rousseff will be elected Brazil's next president.

Ms Rousseff's government brags about its fiscal squeeze.

He disagrees with Ms Rousseff on some things, such as foreign policy and the role of the state in the economy. But he agrees on others.

A first test for Mr Tombini after Ms Rousseff takes over on January 1st will be whether he raises the benchmark rate to curb inflation.

But Ms Rousseff is indebted to those who helped her rise to power.

It is also the second under President Dilma Rousseff and central bank head Alexandre Tombini, both of whom took office in January.

If the polls are right (see chart), Ms Rousseff will be Brazil's next president. That is despite several brewing scandals.

Ms Rousseff and the ruling Workers' Party (PT) want the state to play a bigger role in the economy.

Their policy discipline relaxed only in 2010, when economic growth of 7. 5% helped to get Ms Rousseff elected.

The ruling party's Dilma Rousseff, who was Lula's chief of staff, says she is the programme's true guardian.

Ms Rousseff won 47% of the vote in the first round; her rival got 33%.

On paper, if Ms Rousseff does decide she is ready for a fight, she will have a better chance of getting her way than Lula did.

From Nelspruit Rousseff can fly to Cape Town and view the magnificent new stadium beside the Atlantic. That one's now redundant too.

The legislation must now go to the Senate and then to President Rousseff.

Restored to government by Ms Rousseff, his job has been to do much of the arm-twisting that is essential in Brazil's coalition politics.

Dilma Rousseff's economic team reassures suddenly nervous investors that it will indeed stick to fiscal and monetary rectitude