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Weekly Report - 13 December 2005
BRAZIL: As Lula flounders, hints of a Serra-Maia ticket
Elections are just over ten months away, nominations just over three at most - and it has started to tell. As the pro-government camp starts bandying about the possibility that President Lula da Silva may not stand for reelection, the man most-cited as standard-bearer of the conservative Partido da Frente Liberal (PFL), César Maia, has offered to step aside in favour of José Serra of the Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira
(PSDB).
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