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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Photos Full Coverage Sitemap Mix of sadness, triumph as Brazil's Lula makes his exit AFP - Sunday, October 3 Send IM Story Print Mix of sadness, triumph as Brazil's Lula makes his exit SAO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, Brazil (AFP) - – Brazil's outgoing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva displayed both triumph and melancholy Saturday as he stumped for his chosen successor on the eve of elections marking the beginning of the end of his term in office. As he was being driven around his hometown of Sao Bernardo do Campo on Sao Paulo's southern outskirts in an open car with his candidate Dilma Rousseff, Lula -- Brazil's most popular president ever -- received accolades from residents with tears in his eyes. "He is very moved because he did so much for us... He suffered what we suffered," said Cleila Santos, a 54-year-old health worker wearing the red of a Lula campaigner. "We sure are going to miss him. He was everything in our lives, and we will never have another president like him," she told AFP. Maria Elizelia, a 61-year-old resident selling souvenirs, called Lula "my friend." "When he was arrested (by Brazil's then-military dictatorship in 1980), I looked after his house and his two kids," she said, pointing to a photograph Lula autographed for her. Although Lula, 64, officially hands over the reins to his successor on January 1, 2011, Sunday's general elections were a curtain call of sorts -- especially as his anointed heir was poised to take over with massive support he generated himself. All the polls suggested Rousseff, Lula's 62-year-old former chief minister, was close to scoring an outright majority in the vote. Such a win would allow Rousseff to be immediately declared the first woman president of the largest nation in Latin America and the eighth-largest economy in the world. If she falls short, though, she and her closest rival, former Sao Paulo state governor Jose Serra, will face off in a second round on October 31 -- which Rousseff is predicted to win handily anyway. "He was the best president ever, and Dilma is going to continue his work," said an unemployed 42-year-old woman, Vera da Conceicao Silva, echoing a widely heard sentiment. She was among a hysteric crowd of hundreds of people turning out to greet their local hero in Sao Bernardo do Campo. Lula, who enjoys an 80-percent popularity rating unprecedented in Brazilian politics, came from the most humble origins to take the highest office in the land. A shoe-shine boy from an illiterate family that moved from Brazil's impoverished northeast to better-off Sao Paulo state, Lula became a teenage metalworker and then a union leader before turning to politics. The military dictatorship had him arrested for leading strikes challenging its rule. After Brazil's return to democracy, Lula presented himself three times for the presidency -- in 1989, 1994 and 1998 -- before becoming successful on his fourth try, in 2002. His strategy of maintaining fiscal stabilization policies brought in by his predecessor, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, while extending social welfare programs that lifted millions of Brazilians out of poverty proved an unbeatable combination, and he was soundly re-elected in 2006. Barred from seeking a third consecutive mandate under Brazil's constitution, he will cast his ballot for Rousseff in his hometown before flying to Brasilia to wait on the election results. Despite her time spent in Lula's cabinet, little is known about how Rousseff thinks beyond her oft-repeated promises to continue her mentor's policies. Critics point instead to her participation 40 years ago in a violent, Marxist underground movement seeking to overthrow the military dictatorship. That led to her arrest in 1970 and three years behind bars, where she was subjected to torture. While Rousseff has established her moderate credentials through her years in Lula's center-left administration, she has given indications that she would favor greater state involvement in Brazil's booming economy. But if, as expected, she becomes Brazil's new president, she will face more pressing challenges than launching any wider reforms. "We have two important events here soon: the World Cup and the Olympics, which will require heavy investment in infrastructure -- airports, public transport, roads," said Ricardo Luiz Mendes Ribeiro, a political analyst at MCM Consultoria. 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