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Brazilian President Lula da Silva Launches Re-Election Campaign for Fourth Term
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, aged 80, announced his candidacy for a fourth term in office during the Workers' Party national convention held in Sao Paulo, stating that it would be his final presidential term. Lula's campaign speech focused on national sovereignty, calling for increased defense spending and vowing to protect Brazil's reserves of rare earth minerals from foreign control. The announcement comes amid trade tensions with the United States following two rounds of U.S. tariffs on Brazilian goods and public friction with President Donald Trump, who maintains ties with primary rival candidate Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, the 45-year-old son of former President Jair Bolsonaro. Recent Datafolha polling shows Lula leading Flavio Bolsonaro 48 percent to 43 percent in a potential second-round runoff.
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva formally announced his campaign for a fourth presidential term at the Workers' Party national convention in Sao Paulo.
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