Weekly Report - 20 January 2004
BRAZIL: Lula casts alliance net further right
President Lula da Silva is not only about to offer a couple of places in his cabinet to the right-of-centre Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (PMDB), a party he has in the past castigated as `corrupt' and `reactionary'; he has opened negotiations to extend the ruling alliance to the rightwing Partido Popular (PP), which members of Lula's party still consider `the epitome of all that is backward in Brazilian politics.'
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