Brazil leader slips in polls before vote
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Brazil's first working-class president slipped in the polls on the eve of elections Sunday, indicating he may not win a convincing first-round victory but will instead be forced to campaign for another month amid spiraling corruption allegations against his party.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - The head of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's party said Friday he would step down after a campaign mudslinging scandal.
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Pakistan's president considers concessions to his political opposition ahead of expected January elections, as a polls show him in thrid place behind Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif
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Six weeks before the US presidential election, George W. Bush was clinging to a lead with Democrat John Kerry still stained by attacks on his leadership and struggling to connect with voters, polls show.
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(CPOD) Sept. 20, 2004 - Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is regaining public support in Brazil, according to a poll by Ibope. 38 per cent of respondents rate the presidentâs performance as &quot;good&quot; or &quot;very good,&quot; a nine per cent increase since June.
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THE INCUMBENT: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil's first elected leftist president, has been applauded for keeping his pledge to improve life for the poor, and for doing it without raising taxes or alienating foreign investors.
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Brazil's President Luiz Inacio da Silva is weakened as two parties withdraw from his governing coalition.
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Partial results put opposition candidate Traian Basescu narrowly ahead in the race to be Romanian president.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva must contest a run-off after a string of corruption scandals turned many voters against the former factory worker in Sunday's presidential election.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil's opposition candidates   stepped up attacks on Thursday against President Luiz Inacio   Lula da Silva over corruption in an effort to trim the former   union leader's solid lead in the presidential election race.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva faces a month of high-stakes campaigning against an inspired challenger who will try to hammer on corruption scandals to unseat the former metalworker in a runoff vote.
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Exit polls in Romaniaâs vote show the ruling party in the lead in todayâs parliamentary elections, but forced into a run off for the presidential election.
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BRASILIA : Brazilians voted in local elections for mayors and city councilors in a key mid-term test for leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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Thanks mostly to a robust economy, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been coasting to re-election victory in two months. But a new threat is rising.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Brazilians lined up to vote on Sunday with indications that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, though still the champion of the poor and workers, may have squandered his chances of a first-round victory because of scandals over sleazy politics.
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Japan's Prime Minister is losing traction on affairs close to voters, polls say
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President suffers crushing blow to his authority in Pakistan's parliamentary elections