FILE PHOTO: Pre-candidate for Brazil's Presidency Ciro Gomes, attends a presidential debate in Brasilia, Brazil June 6, 2018. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File photo
BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian presidential candidate Ciro Gomes has sounded out steelmaking tycoon Benjamin Steinbruch as a possible vice presidential running mate in October and he would join the ticket if invited, a person close to Steinbruch told Reuters.
Such a ticket joining the centre-left populist from northeast Brazil with a billionaire industrialist family from the wealthier southeast would be expected to boost Brazilian national industry with strong state backing if elected.
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