RIO DE JANEIRO: After a dramatic, hard-fought race, Brazilians elect their next president on Sunday (Monday in Manila), weighing 12 years of social progress against a yearning for economic revival, and for change.

Leftist incumbent Dilma Rousseff is the narrow favorite heading into the vote, with a four- to six-point advantage over center-right business favorite Aecio Neves in the race to lead the world’s seventh-largest economy, Saturday’s final surveys showed.

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