Brazil Presidential Election

BRAZIL POLITICS - Report 01 Jul 2014 by Murillo de Aragão and Cristiano Noronha

The Vice Presidential Candidates Senator and presidential candidate Aécio Neves (PSDB-MG) has confirmed that Senator Aloysio Nunes Ferreira (PSDB-SP) will be the vice presidential candidate on his ticket.Thus, the PSDB will head into the October elections with a “purebred” coalition – one in which both candidates belong to the same party. The Aécio-Aloysio ticket also represents a “café au lait” coalition, the name given to political alliances between people from Minas Gerais and São Paulo during the Old Republic.Until 1930, São Paulo (coffee producers) candidates and Minas Gerais (milk pro...

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