Brazil ex-leader Lula key to Rousseff re-election bid
Brazil ex-leader Lula key to Rousseff re-election bid
By Natalia Ramos (AFP) 39 mins ago .
Keen to secure his political legacy, former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is campaigning energetically for successor Dilma Rousseff as she struggles to win a second term.
Lula, the 68-year-old former union leader who became president in 2003, was wildly popular for most of his eight years in office.
Now he is out on the stump backing the woman he anointed to carry on his work, wary that her defeat would remove some luster from his own achievements.
The charismatic Lula, whose Workers Party is seeking a fourth straight election victory, has been criss-crossing the giant nation, campaigning through the Amazon, in business hub Sao Paulo and from Mato Grosso in the west to Rio de Janeiro on the east coast.
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