Election year for emerging markets: What to expect
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View from the experts: “The poorer have tended to be loyal supporters of [former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva] Lula/Dilma, since the [Brazilian] government’s social programs benefited them,” said Guy Burton, assistant professor, School of Politics, History and International Relations, University of Nottingham, Malaysia. ” It’s also the case that the support of the Workers Party has shifted over the last decade, from its core base in the industrial urban heartland and trade union movement of the south, including Sao Paulo to the poorer, rural, less educated and marginal Northeast.”
