Weekly Report - 1 July 2010 (WR-10-26)

José Serra, the presidential candidate for the opposition Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB), chose a little-known politician from the conservative Democratas (DEM) as his vice-president nominee after a damaging spat over the nomination threatened to destabilise the PSDB-DEM alliance.  Meanwhile, the latest opinion polls showed the government's presidential candidate, Dilma Rousseff, of the ruling Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), pulling ahead in the race for Brazil's presidency.