Many may cast protest votes in Brazil’s presidential runoff

World Today

As Brazilians prepare to elect their next president on the October 26 runoff, many are saying going to vote only because voting in the country is mandatory.

The choice is now between President Dilma Rousseff of the leftist Workers Party and Aecio Neves of the center-right Social Democracy party, who are repeating a battle between two parties that have been in power for the last 20 years.

Though it is hard to imagine that blank, null, and absentee ballots, will outnumber votes for a candidate, many Brazilians are clearly willing to cast a protest vote next Sunday. CCTV America’s Lucrecia Franco reports from Rio de Janeiro.