BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's leftist Workers Party (PT) approved a resolution on Saturday formally supporting the candidacy of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, as the nation's left continues to rally around the leader despite a corruption conviction.
"We arrive in 2018, an election year, with the candidacy of Lula consolidated in such a way that it doesn't belong to the PT; it belongs to the Brazilian people," read the resolution, drafted by the party's national committee after a two-day meeting in Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city.