EXTRA: Serra concedes defeat in Brazil: 'True fight' starts now'

Mon, 01 Nov 2010

Sao Paulo - Social democrat Jose Serra conceded defeat in Sunday's presidential runoff in Brazil, and he promised hard work as leader of the opposition to president-elect Dilma Rousseff and her ruling Workers' Party.

"We are only just beginning a true fight," he said.

"We will make our contribution to the country in defense of the homeland, of freedom, of democracy, of the right that all have to be heard when they talk, of social justice," he stressed.

The candidate of the Party of Brazilian Social Democracy (PSDB), who on Sunday got barely 44 per cent of the votes to Rousseff's 56 per cent, sent wishes that his victorious rival will well serve the country.

He accepted the choice of the people "with respect and humility," he said.

Serra had already lost a presidential runoff in 2002, against current Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/351278,true-fight-starts-now.html.