One of Brazil’s Major Parties Chooses Its Presidential Candidate

Brazil’s third-largest party announced it had chosen Sao Paulo Governor Geraldo Alckmin as its presidential candidate at an event in Brasilia on Tuesday.

Alckmin will be the candidate of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, or PSDB, which has won the presidency twice since the return to civilian rule in 1985. Recent opinion polls put Alckmin in fourth place in terms of voter intentions, though the front-runner, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is likely to be barred from standing.