Vote Leader Endorsed by 4th-Place Finisher
The presidential campaign of leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brazil received a major boost when he won the endorsement of the fourth-place finisher in the first round of the election, center-left candidate Ciro Gomes.
Da Silva, the Workers’ Party candidate known to Brazilians simply as Lula, finished first in Sunday’s voting, with 46% of the vote, but failed to win the outright majority necessary to become president. On Oct. 27, he will face conservative ruling-party candidate Jose Serra in a runoff. Serra took 23% of the vote.
Gomes received 12% of the vote but is widely popular in Brazil’s impoverished northeast.
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