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Reuters
Reuters
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By Marcela Ayres and Bernardo Caram

Lula may tap running mate to head Brazil economic policy, aides say

FILE PHOTO: Brazil's Presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds a campaign rally, in Nova Iguacu, near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil September 8, 2022. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva could tap his centrist running mate and former rival, Geraldo Alckmin, to run economic policy if he wins a third term in October, four of his senior advisors told Reuters.

Lula's aides said the leftist leader, who is ahead of President Jair Bolsonaro in opinion polls, would only pick his finance minister after the election is settled, but Alckmin, a former Sao Paulo governor who lost to Lula in the 2006 presidential race, is clearly in the running for the job.

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