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Marina Silva Announces Precandidature for Brazil 2018 Elections

  • Evangelical environmentalist Marina Silva, who founded the Sustainability Network party she now leads.

    Evangelical environmentalist Marina Silva, who founded the Sustainability Network party she now leads. | Photo: EFE

Published 2 December 2017
Opinion

In the 2010 presidential elections, Silva ran as a Green candidate after leaving the governing Workers' Party.

Marina Silva, Brazil's third most popular candidate in the past three presidential elections, has announced her pre-candidature for the country's presidential elections due to take place in 2018.

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Leader of the Sustainability Network party she recently created, Silva ran for the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) in the last elections after the electoral body rejected her candidacy because she hadn't collected enough signatures.

The environmental activist, and former environment minister under Lula Da Silva, criticized the current policies carried out by neoliberal President Michel Temer in a political meeting in Brazil.

"A government with 3 percent of approval cannot properly reform the country, also because the reforms the country needs are not the ones implemented," she said.

In the 2010 presidential elections, Silva ran as a Green candidate after leaving the governing Workers' Party. She had planned to reduce oil production in "pre-salt" areas," under the seabed, replacing it instead with energy from ethanol as more a viable fossil-fuel alternative.

The evangelical member of the conservative Assembly of God also championed conservative positions on social issues, such as gay marriage and abortion.

In 2014, her anti-gay-marriage stance during the presidential campaign cost her the support of Mark Ruffalo, among others, after the U.S. actor had previously said he favored her as a candidate.

Lula stands a good chance of winning the presidency in 2018: despite the myriad problems plaguing the PT in recent months, the party remains the most popular. Recent local polls have also positioned Lula as the front-runner.

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