This unprecedented alliance has been anticipated for several weeks. It is now sealed. On Friday April 8, former Brazilian leader Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva (2003-2010), big favorite in the presidential elections next October even before formalizing his candidacy, announced that he had chosen the former governor of São Paulo Geraldo Alckmin as running mate. An announcement made during a meeting in São Paulo between their respective political formations, the Workers’ Party (PT, left) and the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB, center left).
On paper, the tandem is surprising. Rallyed last March to the PSB, Geraldo Alckmin, 69, was for more than three decades one of the figureheads of the Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB, center right). Economically liberal, fervent Catholic, he was a fierce opponent of the PT and Lula, against whom he lost in the second round of the 2006 presidential elections.
The two men promised a “union” of their strength to “rebuild” the country, reports Or Balloon. asshole