BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who called Israel’s conflict this summer with Hamas “a massacre,” will face a runoff to stay in office.
Rousseff of the left-wing Workers’ Party will face Aecio Neves of the center-right Social Democracy Party in the Oct. 26 runoff after failing to win an outright victory Sunday in her bid to gain a second four-year term.
The incumbent was the top vote-getter with 41.6 percent to 33.6 percent for Aecio, a senator. Marina Silva, a prominent environmentalist, finished third with 21.3 percent of the vote.
In late July, speaking about the Israel-Hamas conflict, Rousseff said, “I think what’s happening in the Gaza Strip is dangerous. I don’t think it’s genocide, but I think it’s a massacre.”
Brazil, a country of some 110,000 Jews, pulled its ambassador from Israel amid the conflict.
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In Israel, Neves was the winner among the Brazilian Jews with 145 votes, followed by Silva with 35 and Rousseff with 9.
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