First inauguration of Dilma Rousseff told the group responsible for organizing her inauguration that she will not be taking her mother nor her daughter with her at the Silver Wraith. Traditionally, the President-elect parades alongside his spouse, but Rousseff is divorced. Nevertheless, at the inauguration, Rousseff changed her mind and took daughter Paula to parade with her. The news portal G1, which accompanied the rehearsal, anticipated that the inauguration would be "quite a feminine party". Important female figures in Brazil's history were honored with panels spread across the Monumental Axis. The Ministry of Culture organized the cultural part of the inauguration, having provided a budget
Opinion polling for the 2010 Brazilian presidential election candidates receives more than a half of the valid votes, a run-off is held four weeks after the first round. The leading candidate, Dilma Rousseff, received 46.9% of the first-round vote, thereby making a second round necessary. In the election, Brazilian citizens eligible to vote chose their successor to then-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, of the democratic socialist/social democratic Workers' Party. According to the Constitution, the President is elected directly to a four-year term, with a limit of two terms. Lula was hence ineligible for a third term, since he was elected in 2002 and re-elected in 2006. The