Brazil's leftist Workers' Party nominated its charismatic founder Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for the upcoming presidential contest today despite him being imprisoned for corruption.
In a message from Lula read to the party convention in Sao Paulo, he said, "Brazil needs to restore its democracy." Although serving a 12-year sentence for corruption, Lula remains by far the frontrunner in opinion polls.
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