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Lula Meets Successor in Jail After Brazil Court Bans His Bid

  • His running mate Haddad is meeting with Lula in Curitiba city
  • Workers’ Party advertisement in legal limbo for time being
An image of former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

An image of former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Photographer: Patricia Monteiro/Bloomberg
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Brazil’s imprisoned ex-leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is meeting with his aides on Monday to map out his party’s next moves after the country’s top electoral court banned him from running for president in October.

Former Sao Paulo Mayor Fernando Haddad, Lula’s running mate and likely successor in the race, is in the southern city of Curitiba, where Lula is serving a prison sentence of more than 12 years on charges of corruption and money laundering.