BRASILIA (Reuters) - The Brazilian Socialist Party plans to launch environmentalist Marina Silva as its presidential candidate next week, replacing party leader Eduardo Campos who was killed in a plane clash, a senior party official said on Saturday.
The PSB, as the party is known, has agreed to rally around a Silva candidacy after she pledged to honour the party's programme and its regional alliances, said Beto Albuquerque, a party congressman from the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul.
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