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Weekly Report - 14 August 2014 (WR-14-32)
BRAZIL: Campos’ death shakes up election campaign
Eduardo Campos, the presidential candidate of the centre-left Partido Socialista Brasileiro (PSB), was just 49 at the time of his death in a plane crash in the coastal city of Santos on the morning of 13 August. Though he seemed unlikely to win election this year, he looked a promising bet for 2018. He also represented a break from the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT)-Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB) duopoly that has dominated Brazilian politics for the past 20 years. Now, the key question is how his vote will split between the remaining candidates for the presidency.
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