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Challenges for the New Administration
Brazil's president, Luís Inácio Lula da Silva, was elected in October 2002 with more than 60% of the vote. After three unsuccessful attempts to win the Presidency (1989, 1994 and 1998), when Mr da Silva and his Worker's Party (PT) advocated a platform of 'radical change' (democratic-socialism), in 2002 they ran on a somewhat more moderate version of the typical left-wing discourse in Latin America.