LatinNews Daily - 24 November 2009

Development:   On 23 November the latest CNT/Sensus poll was released indicating a fall in support for the leading 2010 presidential contender, José Serra of the main centrist opposition Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB).
 
Significance: Serra, who is still not the confirmed PSDB candidate, insists that he will not begin his electoral campaign until after party primaries in June next year. The PSDB, however, is getting nervous, as the presumptive candidate for the ruling Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), Dilma Rousseff, is already effectively on the campaign trail at home and abroad, with the heavy backing of the enormously popular President Lula da Silva.