Lula Faces New Woes as Coalition Fractures
Brazil’s biggest party voted to leave the governing coalition Sunday in a move that could complicate President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s reform agenda and pressure him to give the centrist party extra government posts.
The Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, or PMDB, called on all its members, including two Cabinet ministers, to quit Lula’s center-left government and back their own candidate for Brazil’s 2006 presidential election.
The vote gives Lula a fresh political headache as he tries to push ahead with economic reforms that have been stalled in Congress since October’s municipal elections.
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