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Marina Silva backs Campos for Brazil presidency
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Oct 06, 2013 08:50am |
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| Author | F Wire |
| News Date | Sunday, October 6, 2013 02:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Ecologist Marina Silva said Saturday that she will not run for the Brazilian presidency in the 2014 polls, and instead will back Eduardo Campos, who will be the nominee for the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB).
“I come to a party with a candidate,” Silva said as she joined the PSB at a ceremony in Brasilia, standing next to Campos, governor of the northeastern state of Pernambuco. Silva decided to join the PSB after the electoral court refused to register her own party, called Sustainability Network, since it had not collected the minimum number of signatures required by law.
The ecologist said that Sustainability Network has not yet decided whether she should run for vice president on the ticket with Campos.
The electoral accord does not signify a fusion of the two parties, according to Silva, who said she remains a “militant of Sustainability Network” and joined the PSB in a “transitory” and “symbolic” way until she can establish her own party. |
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