Lula confirmed
as candidate for reelection in Brazil
BRASILIA.— Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula
da Silva received a strong ovation as the candidate
for reelection during the Workers Party (PT)
convention here on Saturday.
The meeting also confirmed José Alencar, from the
Brazilian Republican Party (PRB), as vice president.
Addressing the close to 5,000 PT members who
filled the Minas Tennis Club hall in the capital,
Lula said that he was to humbly subject his name and
that of his government to the judgment of his
Brazilian brothers and sisters in the October
elections, PL reports.
Lula affirmed that he was standing again, not out
of choice but because the project of change had to
continue, because Brazil today is much better than
the country he discovered three and a half years
ago.
Lula offered some indicators of his government
such as unemployment, which has fallen by 13.7%
during the current administration.
He noted that the present government is showing
the best economic indicators in the last 10 years
and stated that the time was coming to an end when a
simple chill in the globalized markets led to
serious pneumonia in Brazil.
Lula was accompanied at the convention by Senate
President Renán Calheiros (of the Brazilian
Democratic Movement Party); Aldo Rebelo (of the
Communist Party of Brazil), president of the House;
and other representatives of those forces and of the
Brazilian Socialist Party.
