With the promise of continuing the socio-economic transformations made over the past 11 years, the president has intensified her campaign over the past few weeks, confident in her victory next Sunday in the polls, after winning 41.57 percent of votes in the first round on October 5.

We will defeat the past, as we cannot allow the country to move back, said Rousseff after winning the first round.

Born in 1947 in the city of Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais, Rousseff favors deepening social policies and improving the quality of education and healthcare as options to reduce inequality in the country.

A fairer Brazil is one of the slogans of her campaign, which focuses on productive competitiveness, a society of knowledge and a sustainable model of development.

After getting 36 million Brazilians out of poverty since 2003 and guaranteeing increases in revenues, jobs and access to education and healthcare, Rousseff proposes a new cycle of economic boost with social inclusion.

Her candidacy is based on four years of her government, a period during which jobs were created, the minimum salary was increased and millions of houses for low-income people were built despite the international crisis. (KH)