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Weekly Report - 1 May 2014 (WR-14-17)
BRAZIL: Rousseff: with or without you
As the “Volta, Lula” [Come back, Lula] movement rears its head once again, President Dilma Rousseff has made clear she will run as a presidential candidate, with or without the support of her allied base. Speaking during a week in which 20 congressional deputies from a coalition party signed a letter calling for the return of her predecessor, Lula da Silva (2003-2010), and a new opinion poll was published showing her losing ground to rivals, Rousseff struck a defiant note. “When I am the candidate, I would really like to have the support of my own allied base,” she said. “But even if I don’t, I’ll keep going ahead.”
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