Tag: Marina Silva

• Thursday, June 7th 2018 - 08:53 UTC

  With Lula out of the presidential race, far-right candidate Bolsonaro is the clear frontrunner

  

  Far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro is the clear frontrunner in Brazil’s election in October with up to 25% of voter support, followed by center-left populist Ciro Gomes with 12%, a new poll revealed on Tuesday.

• Monday, April 16th 2018 - 09:05 UTC

  Brazilian electorate cautious, a week after the imprisonment of Lula da Silva

  

  Brazilian voters are abandoning jailed former President Lula da Silva as his chances of running in October fade, but they are not transferring their support en masse to other leftist candidates, a Datafolha poll showed on Sunday. Without Lula in the running, support for far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro has slipped and is now virtually tied with environmentalist Marina Silva in a presidential race thrown wide open, the survey said.

• Wednesday, March 28th 2018 - 22:26 UTC

  Temer, presidential hopefuls condemn attacks on Lula in Parana

  

  Incumbent president Michel Temer and candidates for this year's elections Henrique Meirelles (PSD), Manuela d'Avila (PCdoB), Marina Silva (Rede), Guilherme Boulos (PSOL) and Geraldo Alckmin (PSDB) Wednesday condemned the attack against the caravan of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) in the south of the country.

• Wednesday, March 7th 2018 - 06:36 UTC

  Lula closer to prison, but remains undisputed front-runner in the presidential election

  

  Former Brazilian President Lula da Silva is a step closer to prison. A panel of judges on Brazil’s Superior Court of Justice on Tuesday rejected Lula da Silva’s request for an injunction that would prevent him from being imprisoned as he appeals a corruption conviction.

• Monday, December 4th 2017 - 08:23 UTC

  Green candidate Marina Silva will run for president in Brazil

  

  Former Brazilian senator and environmental minister Marina Silva said on Sunday that she would seek her party’s nomination to run for president next year. Silva announced her plans at a meeting of her Sustainability Network Party, or REDE, which would officially nominate her at its national convention in April.

• Monday, April 11th 2016 - 07:03 UTC

  Brazilians favor early elections if both Rousseff and Temer are impeached

  

  A smaller majority of Brazilians favor the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff compared to last month, while more than half want her immediate successor to be impeached too, according to a survey released on Saturday by polling firm Datafolha.

• Wednesday, April 6th 2016 - 08:42 UTC

  Brazil's governance crisis closer to a snap election as soon as October

  

  A Supreme Court judge ordered Brazil's Congress on Tuesday to start impeachment proceedings against Vice President Michel Temer, deepening a political crisis and uncertainty over leadership of Latin America's largest country. Justice Marco Aurelio Mello told the lower house to convene an impeachment committee to consider putting Temer on trial on charges he helped manipulate budget accounting as part of President Dilma Rousseff's administration.

• Wednesday, March 30th 2016 - 06:28 UTC

  Dilma main ally abandons government pushing her closer to impeachment

  

  A anticipated Brazil's largest party, the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, PMDB, announced on Tuesday it was leaving President Dilma Rousseff's governing coalition and pulling its members from her government, a departure that raises the odds she could be impeached in a matter of months.

• Thursday, October 16th 2014 - 07:45 UTC

  Brazilian presidential runoff in a neck to neck technical tie

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff and her challenger Senator Aecio Neves for the 26 October runoff, are technically tied according to the latest public opinion poll released by Datafolha, which so far has shown to be one of the most reliable pollsters.

• Monday, October 13th 2014 - 06:38 UTC

  Environmentalist Marina Silva “will vote and support” Aecio Neves

  

  Business-friendly opposition candidate Aecio Neves received a crucial boost in Brazil's presidential election race on Sunday with the endorsement of popular environmentalist Marina Silva two weeks before his runoff against incumbent Dilma Rousseff.