Exclusive: Brazil's PSDB party would support Silva in runoff


  • World
  • Wednesday, 20 Aug 2014

Brazilian politician Marina Silva (C), former minister of the environment under the government of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, attends the wake for late presidential candidate Eduardo Campos, at the Pernambuco Government Palace in Recife, August 17, 2014. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB), the country's biggest opposition group, would formally support environmentalist Marina Silva in a runoff vote for the presidency if its own candidate fails to qualify, a party source told Reuters.

Such an alliance would reduce President Dilma Rousseff's chances of winning a second term by bringing together large, disparate groups of voters who are clamouring for change after more than a decade of Workers' Party rule.

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