Brazil's Rousseff, Neves Race For Support In Tight Election Runoff -- Reuters
(Reuters) - An unexpectedly competitive runoff campaign for Brazil's presidency kicked off on Monday with leftist incumbent Dilma Rousseff and her pro-business rival Aecio Neves racing to lock up supporters of an ousted third-place candidate and others frustrated with a stagnant economy.
Neves, a former two-term state governor and senator who had been widely written off until the last few days of the campaign, rode a late surge in support to second place with 33.6 percent support in Sunday's first round of voting.
He will face Rousseff, who won 41.6 percent support, in the runoff on Oct. 26.
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