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Former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, imprisoned since the weekend on a corruption conviction, will still be the Workers' Party candidate in Brazil's October presidential election, party leaders said Monday. «He is our candidate no matter the cirImprisoned Lula is still 'our candidate,' his party says
Former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, imprisoned since the weekend on a corruption conviction, will still be the Workers' Party candidate in Brazil's October presidential election, party leaders said Monday. «He is our candidate no matter the circumstances,» party chief Gleisi Hoffmann said outside the police station in the southern city of Curitiba where Lula is locked up. The leftwing ex-president, 72, handed himself into police on Saturday, a day after defying a court-ordered deadline to surrender to start serving his 12-year sentence. He remains the comfortable favorite in voter surveys heading toward the October election, though his incarceration casts doubts on whether he can legally run for office. He should be declared ineligible in August after having his conviction upheld once by an appeals court. ... Read more