Jose Serra

By Gabriel Elizondo in Americas on September 29th, 2010
Photo by Reuters

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won’t be on the ballot on Sunday when 136 million Brazilians cast a vote for president, but his famous Lula name will be – it just won’t be the president himself.

Meet Luiz da Silva. Not the president. But the candidate for the federal deputy from Lula’s Workers Party.

Not only is his name almost identical to that of the Brazilian president, but he even has the same thick beard and portly stature. His deep, scratchy voice is almost identical too. And he is even missing part of a finger just like President Lula da Silva.

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Luiz 'Lula' da Silva, candidate for congress, and the man who looks a lot like the popular Brazilian president. Photo: Tatiana Polastri/Al Jazeera.

By Gabriel Elizondo in Americas on August 28th, 2010

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A campaign poster in Brasilia shows how strongly Dilma Rousseff is linking her campaign with the legacy of Pres. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Photo: Maria Elena Romero/Al Jazeera.

 

Brazil is leaning heavily towards electing the country's first female president.

Dilma Rousseff has never been elected to public office, but the polls indicate her first such position could be the most important one in Brazil: President. Mrs President.

By Gabriel Elizondo in Americas on June 6th, 2010
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. (AFP)

A new poll was released Sunday in Brazil that shows the race to see who will replace Lula as Brazil’s next president is as close as ever.

The two front runners - Jose Serra, the Sao Paulo governor; and Dilma Rousseff, Lula’s chief of staff - are exactly tied at 37% of the vote, according to the poll conducted by Ibope on behalf of O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper and Rede Globo.

By Gabriel Elizondo in Americas on February 6th, 2010
Photo by EPA

On the first Sunday in October Brazilians will go to the polls to decide who will get the task of trying to replace Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as the next president of South America's largest and most influential country.

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