Brazil's Worker Party candidate says he will stand up to the bankers and imperialists
BRAZIL’S new Workers Party presidential candidate Fernando Haddad has called on those who want a leader who will stand up to financial markets and the US to vote for him.
Speaking at a meeting with beneficiaries of education programmes of the Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva administration, he said the stock exchange boost that occurred when Lula — as Mr da Silva is universally known — was barred from standing was an indication of the former president’s strength.
Lula, Brazil’s most popular former president and a clear frontrunner in the polls until he was barred from running because of a trumped-up corruption conviction, has endorsed Mr Haddad and running mate Manuela d’Avila of the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB).
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