HELGA DESIGN

PRESIDENTA DILMA ROUSSEFF

Newly sworn in Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, center, Vice-President Michel Temer, left, and outgoing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva raise their hands during

the inauguration ceremony at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia.

Dilma Vana Rousseff , 62, has achieved the rare distinction of becoming Brazil’s

first female president when she succeeded outgoing leftist leader Luis

Inacio Lula da Silva.

Known for her fierce determination in Brazil, Rousseff was jailed in 1970s for

guerrilla activities and she is nicknamed as “Iran Lady’ by the media similar to

the image of Margaret Thatcher of Britain.

She became known in Brazil when she opposed the 1964-85 military dictatorship that ruled Brazil

Dilma Rousseff was born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, on December 14, 1947, to Bulgarian lawyer and entrepreneur Pedro Rousseff (born Pétar Rúsev, Bulgarian: Петър Русев, 1900–1962 schoolteacher Dilma Jane

da Silva.Her father was born in Gabrovo was a friend of the Nobel Prize-nominated Bulgarian poet Elisaveta Bagriana. An active member of the Bulgarian Communist Party in the 1920s,Petar Rusev fled political

persecution in Bulgaria in 1929, settling in France. He arrived in Brazil in the 1930s, already widowed (he left behind his son Lyuben, who died in 2007. . Petar Rusev adapted his first name to Portuguese and the last to

French. During a trip to Uberaba, he met Dilma Jane da Silva

With daughter Paula Rousseff de Araújo

Ms Rousseff, a strong personality with a famously short temper, In her victory speech, Ms Rousseff highlighted the importance of a free press,

which came under fire by Lula in his final year in government.

"I will look after the most vulnerable. I will govern for all Brazilians,""The most determined struggle will be to eradicate extreme poverty,""We can be a more developed and fairer country.“

By President Dilma Rousseff 1th January 2011

Music : National Anthem sung by brazilian birds

Beautiful Marcela Tedeschi Temer, 27 anos, wife of Vice Presidente Michel Temer, 70,

Ms. Paula and Ms. Marcela

Príncipe das Astúrias, Felipe de Borbón, herdeiro da Coroa da Espanha

Ms. Hillary Clinton

Dilma Vana Rousseff at the christening of grandson Gabriel (September 9, 2010 )l, with daughter Paula and son-in-law Rafael Covolo, and Dilma Jane Rousseff, the great-grandmother (far left)

Photos : Brazilian Press

Supreme Electoral Court