Lula elected as president of Brazil

national | miscellaneous | news report Monday October 28, 2002 16:30 by Finghin - Socialist Youth UCD info at syucd dot cjb dot net

Lula Da Silva (PT)has been elected as president of Brazil.

He got 63% of the vote in the secound round of polling which took place today. Lula is a member of the Workers Party (PT). He is a reformist and has made major concessions to the establishment. However the PT has not completly transformed into a openly capitalist party like the Social Democratic/Labour parties of Europe. Many have said that the election of Lula would give massive confidence to the workers and oppressed of Brazil in their fight against the IMF.