27 October 2014
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Ms Rousseff said she wanted to be "a much better president" and promised political reform
President
Dilma Rousseff has promised to re-unite Brazil after narrowly winning
re-election to a second term in office with 51.6% of the vote.
She said "dialogue" would be her top priority after a
bitterly fought campaign against centre-right candidate Aecio Neves, who
got 48.4% of the vote.
The left-wing leader said she wanted to be "a much better president than I have been until now".
She faced mass protests last year against corruption and poor services.
But Ms Rousseff, who has been in power since 2010, remains
popular with poor Brazilians thanks to her government's welfare
programmes.
Political reform
The vote split Latin America's biggest country almost evenly in two, along lines of social class and geography.
Whereas Dilma Rousseff did well in the poorer northern
states, her opponent from the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB)
took many of the wealthier and more developed southern parts of Brazil.
After an acrimonious and closely fought campaign, Rousseff supporters were clearly relieved to have won
Mr Neves's supporters saw their chance of ousting the PT from power vanish for another term
The president said that during the campaign "the word repeated
most often was change and the idea most often invoked was reform".
"Sometimes in history, close outcomes trigger results more quickly than ample victories," she said.
"It is my hope, or even better, my certainty that the clash
of ideas can create room for consensus, and my first words are going to
be a call for peace and unity," she told a cheering crowd in the
capital, Brasilia.
"Instead of widening differences and creating a rift, I have the strong hope that we can use this energy to build bridges."
She also thanked her supporters, especially her political mentor and predecessor in office, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Ms Rousseff thanked her political mentor and predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
"I thank from the bottom of my heart our number one militant, President Lula."
Her Workers' Party (PT), which has been in power since 2002,
will now govern for another four-year term starting on 1 January 2015,
but with a considerably weaker mandate than before.
Her lead over the Brazilian Social Democracy Party dropped from 12 percentage points in 2010 to three in Sunday's election.
The divided nature of the vote was palpable in Sao Paulo,
where disappointed supporters of Mr Neves chanted "Kick the PT out!"
while PT voters waved flags and celebrated in the streets.
Mr Neves admitted defeat and thanked the "more than 50 million Brazilians who voted for the path to change".
He said that the "overriding priority is to unite Brazil around an honourable programme worthy of all Brazilians".
Analysis: Wyre Davies, BBC News, Rio de Janeiro
This has been the tightest of contests, but in re-electing
Dilma Rousseff, Brazilians have opted for continuity, backing a system
and a party that has brought economic growth and generous welfare
programmes that have elevated tens of millions of Brazilians out of
extreme poverty.
The centrist, business-friendly candidate Aecio Neves had
pushed Dilma Rousseff hard - his experience as a successful state
governor persuading many Brazilians that he could modernize and
rationalize what, in recent years, has been a struggling economy.
The challenges facing Dilma Rousseff are huge. International
markets are nervous about the high level of government intervention in
the economy. Many of those Brazilians whose lives have improved in
recent years want more - especially services including better health
education and a reduction in Brazil's chronic levels of crime.
Brazil's president preaches unity after hard-won victory
Ms Rousseff promised wide-spread reform and a "rigorous fight
against corruption", one of the grievances which led to mass protests
last year.
She said she would "strengthen control mechanism and propose changes to the legislation to put an end to impunity".
Both Ms Rousseff and Mr Neves had made economic growth
central to their election campaigns and the president again referred to
her plans in her victory speech.
She said she would "continue to fight inflation and make improvements in the field of fiscal responsibility".
With Brazil's once booming economy now stagnant and inflation
on the rise, analysts say her main challenges will be to regain the
confidence of investors as well as that of those Brazilians who voted
for Mr Neves.
Aecio Neves admitted defeat in a speech to supporters in the southern city of Belo Horizonte
Are you in Brazil? What will the re-election of Dilma Rousseff mean for you? You can email your experiences to haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.
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