News - Politics of Brazil
By Colin McMahon, Chicago Tribune Oct. 30--RIO DE JANEIRO -- Put on notice a month ago by Brazilian voters fed up with scandal and corruption, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva stormed back Sunday to win re-election to a four-year term.
SAO PAULO Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva faced the last major test of his campaign for a second term last night: a debate on his country's biggest TV network with Geraldo Alckmin, a feisty rival desperate to avoid losing tomorrow's run-off election.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil _ The failure of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to win re-election outright Sunday may indicate that Brazilians have finally grown weary of corruption scandals and that the former-trade-union-leader-turned-politician is weaker than many analysts had thought.
By Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil -- Brazil's leftist president fell short of the votes he needed to win a second term Sunday, triggering a runoff later this month after his party was hit in the campaign's final days with charges of corruption and dirty tricks.