Former Sao Paulo mayor Fernando Haddad will be the Brazilian leftist Workers Party’s presidential candidate if jailed former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is barred from running in the October vote, a party source said on Friday.
If Lula is able to run, Communist Party hopeful Manuela D’Avila is likely to abandon her own bid for top office and instead become his vice presidential running mate, according to the source, who is close to the negotiations and asked for anonymity.
But later on Friday, the head of the Workers Party, Gleisi Hoffmann, said after visiting Lula in the federal police building in Curitiba where he is incarcerated that the former president had asked for a few more days for the party to decide about the running mate name.ed that the former president had asked for a few more days for the party to decide about the running mate name.