DR is a Brazilian politician and was the first female President of Brazil.
During her Presidency, DR focused her agenda on ensuring the country’s economic stability and job creation, as well as reducing poverty. Internationally she focused on guaranteeing respect for Human Rights, and Peace, promoting a non-interventionist policy. Anti-corruption bodies were also strengthened during her term and DR also initiated a commission to investigate disappearances and human rights abuses during the military dictatorship in Brazil. She left office in 2016 after a controversial and much politicized impeachment process, which came a year and a half after her re-election as President.
Her relationship with the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) began in 1999, when she joined Lula da Silva’s Presidential Campaign Cabinet. During Lula’s tenure, Dilma Rousseff was Minister of Mines and Energy and President of the Administrative Council of the State-owned oil company Petrobas. Later, she went on to become the President’s Chief of Staff and was chosen by Lula to succeed him as the Presidential candidate.
