Tag: Fernando Haddad 2018

• Friday, October 5th 2018 - 09:22 UTC

  “My flag is the union of the Brazilian people, defend the family and combat violence”, pledges Bolsonaro

  

  Jair Bolsonaro, Brazilian extreme right presidential candidate is leading in opinion polls and also has good strategists. On prime time Thursday when the seventh and last debate of presidential candidates, which he did not attend on medical recommendations, Bolsonaro had a long interview aired at the same time, at his home, in which contrary to his firebrand rhetoric he transmitted a clearly conciliatory message.

• Friday, October 5th 2018 - 06:27 UTC

  Next Brazilian president's main challenge: building a coalition to approve emergency agenda

  

  Whoever wins Brazil's presidential race this month will inherit a fiscal straight jacket and a drifting economy in urgent need of repair: but will have no governing coalition in Congress to pass reforms. On Sunday, Brazilians will vote for the president, all 513 members of the lower house of Congress, and two-thirds of the 81-member Senate.

• Tuesday, September 25th 2018 - 07:31 UTC

  Brazil:Haddad closer to Bolsonaro and would beat him in the runoff, according to latest polls

  

  Fernando Haddad, the presidential candidate for Brazil’s Workers Party (PT), is closing the gap with poll-leading far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro for the October 7 first-round vote and would beat him in a runoff, a survey released on Monday showed.

• Wednesday, September 19th 2018 - 09:06 UTC

  Haddad pledges no pardon for imprisoned Lula da Silva, if he is elected president

  

  Brazil's leftist presidential candidate Fernando Haddad on Tuesday ruled out pardoning the jailed former head of state and his own party's iconic leader Lula da Silva should he triumph in October's elections.

• Thursday, September 13th 2018 - 06:30 UTC

  Bolsonaro leads Brazilian presidential competition with 26% vote intention, according to Ibope

  

  Pollster Ibope released on Tuesday its latest vote intention survey for the different Brazilian candidates who will be disputing the first round of the presidential election next October 7, and they proved to be quite similar to those made public a day before by another significant pollster Datafolha.

• Saturday, September 1st 2018 - 07:36 UTC

  Lula barred from running in October elections; Haddad will lead the PT slate

  

  Brazil's top electoral court, TSE, on early Saturday ended the political comeback plans of former president Lula da Silva, barring him from running in elections in October. Lula is in prison having been sentenced to twelve years for corruption last April.

• Friday, August 17th 2018 - 08:43 UTC

  Lula's ban to run for president expected to be confirmed before August 31

  

  Brazil’s top electoral court must decide whether the country’s most popular politician can run in upcoming elections despite being jailed for corruption. The court is expected to declare former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ineligible in the coming weeks, ahead of the Oct. 7 vote, but that may not stop his Workers Party (PT) winning anyway.

• Thursday, August 16th 2018 - 10:56 UTC

  A defiant Workers Party registers Lula da Silva as presidential candidate

  

  The Workers' Party registered jailed former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as its candidate for president on Wednesday, attempting to muscle him into the race to lead Latin America's largest nation and forcing a showdown with Brazilian electoral authorities.

• Friday, August 10th 2018 - 06:11 UTC

  Brazilian round of presidential candidates debate takes off...without Lula da Silva

  

  Brazil is staging its first presidential election debate with eight of the crowded field locking horns but also one notable absentee – jailed frontrunner ex president Lula da Silva. Thirteen candidates have officially entered the election, which starts with a first round October 7 and is almost sure to go to a run-off two weeks later.

• Tuesday, August 7th 2018 - 07:38 UTC

  Lula's party confirms plan B in case the ex president is barred from running in October

  

  Brazil's Workers' Party announced on Monday that former Sao Paulo Mayor Fernando Haddad will become its presidential candidate if, as expected, jailed ex-president Lula da Silva is barred from running in the October election.