Keeping legacy alive: Brazil's Lula lines up 'poor people's president'

South America's biggest country and the world's 8th largest economy - Brazil - is preparing to vote for a new President. The outgoing leader, who's popularly known as Lula, has finished his second term and is not eligible to take part in Sunday's poll. But as RT's Lauren Lyster reports, it's Lula's favoured successor who could be poised to become the country's first-ever female President.

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• RT
• Anissa Naouai
• Loren Lyster
• Brazil
• Sao Paolo
• Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
• presidential vote
• Dilma Rousseff
• social programs
• poor
• poverty
• Brazil election

[billingrateS]

We had the Fabian socialists, as Serra, and the radical marxists as Lula. Now that Lula´s party assumed a Fabian model alligned with the financial world elite interests (he even joked about it, 'Now I'm Little Lula Peace and Love'), there is not the slightest difference between any of the two major parties. Any resemblance with other countries, folks?

[JaguaripeRJ]

All stories from RT about Brazil are 100% bullshit.

[s0673451]

there should be statues of lula around all european capital cities

[Bolchevick]

Serra fala só merda! Serra only speak shit!

[Bolchevick]

Eu moro em São Paulo, e eu amo essa Cidade, obrigado Lula.

I live im São paulo, and i love this city! Thaks Lula.

[xLanKx]

hahahaha that "maria" woman is friend of my grandmother lol

yeah my grandmother supports dilma's election... I voted on Serra though

[tatuete]

Know better Brazil in the inguainflamada You Tube channel: wonderful landscapes, the people, indians, rain forest, touristics places, carnival and much, much more the international media never shows at your television. 

[zedoidao]

Presidenta!

[DJTIAOBRASIL39]

LULA ESTA MANIPULANDO A ELEIÇÃO . LULA ESTA SENDO ANTI-DEMOCRATICO . SE ESTA NO CARGO DE PRESIDENTE TEM QUE SER NEUTRO . OU SI DESLIGA DA PRESIDENCIA E VIRA GAROTO PROPAGANDA DA DILMA ROUSSET . O BRASIL NÃO TEM LEI . OS JUIZES NÃO FUNCIONAM CONTRA OS PODEROSOS . SÓ FAVELADO NEGRO VAI PRESO NO BRASIL . O PRESIDENTE LULA FAZ CAMPANHA PARA DILMA AO MESMO TEMPO QUE É PRESIDENTE . E FICA INAUGURANDO OBRAS APRESSADAMENTE PARA DAS VOTOS PARA DILMA . REAGE POVO BRASILEIRO ISTO JÁ ESTA DEMAIS . ALO S.T.F