00:00...officialize Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's candidacy for the 2026 general election.
00:05The National Convention of the Workers' Party, PT, of Brazil
00:09officialized this Sunday the candidacy of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
00:13for the elections next October,
00:15seeking his fourth term in the Palacio de Plata Alto as the favorite in the polls.
00:21Lula repeats the formula of 2022 with Geraldo Alcmin in the vice presidency.
00:26For the first time since 1989, the seven parties of the progressive field
00:31have united around the same name in a presidential election.
00:34Furthermore, in recent months, polls have shown the progressive leader
00:38as a favorite in the race for re-election.
00:41Bloomberg's most recent poll, published last Wednesday,
00:44indicated that Lula would get 49.2% of the vote in a runoff,
00:48while the far-right Flávio Bolsonaro would have 42.9%.
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