Brazil Presidential Candidate Vows Not to Pardon Comrade Lula

Brazil's leftist presidential candidate Fernando Haddad on Tuesday ruled out pardoning the jailed former head of state and his own party's iconic leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva should he triumph in October's elections. Haddad was named as the Workers' Party (PT) candidate last week after Lula finally gave up his audacious bid to stand in the October 7 first round presidential election from his prison cell. The 72-year-old, president from 2003-2010, was hoping to win a...

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