Brazil Party Set to Break with Lula Government
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By Tiago Pariz and Carmen Munari BRASILIA, Brazil  - A leading centrist party isthreatening to leave Brazil's governing coalition next week ina move that could jeopardize the president's reforms inCongress and pressure him to give it more Cabinet posts.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - President Luiz Inacio Lula da   Silva lost four points in the past five days from his   commanding lead over his main rival in Brazil's presidential   race, a poll showed on Friday.
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The embattled Prime Minister announces that he will leave office within the year. Now his party must grapple with how to follow him
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Support for Brazilian  President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government rose to 38  percent this month from 29 percent in June, boosted by strong  economic growth, a new poll showed on Friday two weeks before  nationwide local elections.
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Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes has announced that he and his centre-right cabinet had submitted their resignations, the day after the nation's socialist president announced he would dissolve parliament and call an early vote.
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Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio has announced he is dissolving parliament and calling snap elections for 20 February next. Prime minister Pedro Santana Lopes&#39;s and the ruling Social Democrat party are well behind the opposition Socialists.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was battling to secure the votes needed to clinch an outright victory in Sunday's presidential election after public disgust over corrupt politics eroded his support in the final days of campaigning.
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The Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, the second-largest party in President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva&#39;s government, may abandon the coalition to field its own candidate in the 2006 presidential election.
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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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BRASILIA, Brazil  - A source close to President   Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's election committee said on Tuesday   a poll due to be released shortly would show Lula's commanding   lead over his main rival in Brazil's presidential race   narrowing slightly from last week.
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Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio is to dissolve parliament and call early elections over a cabinet crisis.
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Political analysts are uncertain if BrazilÂs president, made vulnerable by another corruption scandal, will obtain the majority he needs to avoid a runoff.
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By Tiago Pariz BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil's biggest party votedto leave the governing coalition on Sunday in a move that couldcomplicate President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's reform agendaand pressure him to give the centrist party more Cabinet posts.
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The Portuguese government has resigned to avoid turf battles with President Jorge Sampaio in the run-up to snap elections in February.
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Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio has decided to dissolve parliament and call early elections amid a crisis provoked by the resignation of the minister for youth and sport, Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes said.
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The Brazilian government is facing criticism from Latin American countries for its failure to abandon the production of cluster bombs.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva must fight his main challenger in a run-off vote after many Brazilians turned against him in Sunday's presidential election and punished the former union leader for a string of corruption scandals.