Ex-mayor to be Brazil presidential candidate if Lula is barred: source

Ex-mayor to be Brazil presidential candidate if Lula is barred: source

72-year-old Lulla led the ray elections in Brazil's most indefinite race in decades, despite its slim chance of being able to actually run.

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

A party source said on Friday that former São Paulo mayor Fernando Haddad will be the presidential candidate of Brazil's leftist workers party if former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been barred from voting in October. If Lula is able to run, then the Communist Party candidate Manuela d'Avila is likely to leave her bid for the top office and instead, according to the source, who is close to the negotiation and has been asked to be anonymous, with her vice president Has become a partner together.

But later on Friday, the head of the Workers Party, Glasgow Hoffman, after being lured into the Federal Police Building in Curitiba, said that he was imprisoned by the former president for a few more days to decide about the partner due to the party. Was said to name

Neither Hadad nor D'Avila could be reached immediately for comment.

72-year-old Lulla led the ray elections in Brazil's most indefinite race in decades, despite its slim chance of being able to actually run.

The Labor Party has said that he is planning to nominate Lulla in his conference on Saturday, even though he could not actively campaign in jail, and in the election of October 7 due to the conviction of corruption Will be stopped from running.

Haddad's choice shows that party officials are coming around the idea of transferring Lulla's support rather than running his campaign from prison.

55-year-old Haddad from the Lebanon-Christian lineage defeated the interest of the conservative star Joao Doria for the first time in the defeat of 2016 in the City Hall of São Paulo.

Haddad’s relative youth and distance from the major corruption scandals roiling Brazilian politics had bolstered expectations that he could be the most likely stand-in for Lula. Still, his resounding 2016 defeat and lack of a connection with the party’s northeastern base has counted against him.

Despite running for presidential positions, D'Avila and his Communist Party of Brazil were eventually expected to join forces with the Workers Party.

On Thursday, Brazilian Senator Ana Amelia Lemos said that centralist presidential candidate Geraldo Alckmin was close to confirming as his partner.

This challenge can help Alckmin to target a weakness of rival candidate and the right wing Congress leader Jair Bolsonaro's weaknesses, if Lula is excluded then the voter's front-runner Bolnararo has made disrespectful comments to women and their support among women is half of their support for men.