Tag: candidate

• Friday, September 7th 2018 - 08:54 UTC

  Brazilian leading presidential candidate stabbed and in serious condition; attack could bolster his chances

  

  The leading candidate in Brazil’s presidential election is in serious but stable condition after being stabbed by an assailant at a campaign rally on Thursday, doctors said, pushing an already chaotic campaign into further disarray.

• Friday, May 11th 2018 - 09:05 UTC

  Despite legal setbacks, Lula reiterates his intention to run for a third presidential term

  

  Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva reiterated on Thursday his intention to run for a third presidential term. Lula was jailed on April 7 and is serving a sentence of 12 years and one month for corruption and money laundering.

• Monday, April 25th 2011 - 07:09 UTC

  An Italian, ‘Super Mario’, the leading candidate to replace Trichet at ECB

  

  France considers Bank of Italy Governor Mario Draghi the leading candidate to succeed Jean-Claude Trichet at the helm of the European Central Bank. However the key decision maker, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, has yet to tip her hand. Merkel’s aides have indicated that Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, no longer insists on a German to succeed Trichet.