Poll:Brazil Ruling Party Is Still Not Presidential-Race Favorite
SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- Sao Paulo state Gov. Jose Serra continues to lead in
the latest poll for the 2010 presidential election race, keeping the ruling
Workers Party in a distant second.
According to the latest poll by CNT/Sensus in Sao Paulo, Serra leads with
31.8% of the potential votes while Workers Party candidate Dilma Rousseff has
21.7%.
Serra lost to Brazil's current popular president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva,
in 2002. Now Lula is hoping to make his chief of staff, Rousseff, his hand-
picked successor.
Lula's popularity is likely to give Dilma a push in 2010. Serra of Brazil's
Social Democratic Party continues to lose his commanding lead in the polls.
If Dilma is elected, she will be Brazil's first female president.
-By Kenneth Rapoza, Dow Jones Newswires; 5511-2847-4541; kenneth.rapoza@
dowjones.com
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