Brazilian President Lula Repeats He's No Chavez and Will Get Out in 2011.
These last days there was a big discussion among the Brazilian population regarding a third consecutive mandate for President Lula. Public opinion is split almost in half on the re-election of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for a second period, giving him a third consecutive 4-year mandate, according to the latest poll published in São Paulo.
Lula himself discarded the idea of a third mandate and said: “No, I don’t want any debate on a third term. It’s nonsense to talk about a third mandate”.
Lula da Silva went further, “In 2014 I’m only interested in seeing the world football Cup played in Brazil. Only God knows what will happen then”, when he can effectively run for a new period according to the current constitution. The Partido dos Trabalhadores PT (Workers Party) presidential candidate for 2010 is cabinet chief Dilma Rousseff (Ms Rousseff was recently exposed to cancer treatment). Dilma Vana Rousseff Linhares (Born December 14, 1947) is a Brazilian economist and politician. She is a member of the Worker's Party and was appointed as Chief of Staff by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2005, when PT luminary José Dirceu was implicated in a major corruption scandal and fell from grace. Lula has already endorsed her as his pick for president, calling her “the most qualified person to govern Brazil” in an interview with the BBC last February.. She was the first female to assume the position.