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Dilma Rousseff — Former President of Brazil | PoliticaHub
PoliticianBRHistorical role: Former President of Brazil
President of Brazil 2011-2016. PT member and former guerrilla who was impeached in 2016 over budget manipulation allegations. Currently chairs the New Development Bank.
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The power context
As Former President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff occupied one of the most consequential executive roles in the state. The historical question is how that authority was used, what institutions it reshaped, and what long-term effects it left on the country and wider world.
The Read
Dilma Rousseff was a politician from Brazil who served as Former President of Brazil. Dilma Rousseff was affiliated with Workers' Party.
Former President of Brazil was where state power actually moved in Brazil during Dilma Rousseff's years in office. Judge by what they did with it — the coalitions, the crises, the institutions left behind — not by the title.
2 tracked elections linked to Dilma Rousseff's career.
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birth year
1947
office
Former President of Brazil
historical status
former
Election History
Elections connected to this politician through candidacy records and office terms.
Brazil's principal left-wing mass party, founded in 1980 by trade unionists, intellectuals, and social movement activists. The PT became the political vehicle for Lula's rise and has shaped Brazilian center-left politics through welfare expansion, labor politics, and repeated presidential victories.
