Tag: Supreme Court decision

• Tuesday, September 11th 2018 - 08:15 UTC

  Lula waiting for Supreme Court decision before giving up his presidential candidacy

  

  Brazil's imprisoned former president Lula da Silva will not yet bow out of next month's presidential race, waiting first to hear a Supreme Court decision on an appeal of his ban from running, his legal team said. His decision takes his leftist Workers' Party (PT) close to the limit on registering a candidate for the October 7 election, with a court having set Tuesday as the deadline for the PT to name a replacement nominee.