Lula's Party Launches All-Out Push for His Brazil Candidacy
- 30,000 supporters expected to protest in Brasilia on Wednesday
- Serving jail sentence, ex-president likely to see bid rejected
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His supporters are descending on Brazil’s capital by the busloads, his lawyers wage legal battles, and his party stages hunger strikes, sit-ins, and news conferences in defense of his right to bid for the country’s top job.
In public, allies of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva are pulling out all the stops to get the imprisoned leftist leader to run in October’s election -- an uphill battle that starts with his candidacy’s registration on Wednesday despite a corruption conviction. They even threaten not to recognize the vote’s result if he can’t participate.