As Brazil’s top two presidential candidates gear up for a runoff election, all eyes are on a candidate who didn’t even make it into the final round.
Green Party candidate Marina Silva, a black senator born into poverty in the rural Amazon, came in third place with almost 20 percent of Sunday’s vote. Her unexpectedly strong showing blocked a first-round win for front-runner Dilma Rousseff — the former chief of staff and chosen successor of current president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva — and propels a former fringe candidate to the center of Brazil’s political stage.
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