Brazil: PSB will make its support for Dilma Rousseff official today besides attacks from Ciro Gomes

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Brazil: PSB will make its support to Dilma Rousseff official today besides the attacks from Ciro Gomes.

Besides the attacks coming from Representative Ciro Gomes (PSB Candidate for President), the national leader of the Partido Socialista do Brasil (PSB) said the party will officially back Dilma Rousseff for president this Tuesday with guarantees that Ciro Gomes will not break with Lula. Ciro already informed his party that he is going to accept his defeat and stay out of the picture.

Dilma said this morning that she expects Ciro Gomes to "return" and support PT.

"I am not going to respond to Representative Ciro Gomes. I believe that he is a person who has always been on our side and I hope he will be back one day." -- She declared.

Speculation among the allies of Ciro Gomes is that he is going to stop the hostilities to preserve the political future of his brother, governor Cid Gomes (PSB - Ceará) who is up for election this year.


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Original article in Portuguese:

Apesar dos ataques de Ciro Gomes, PSB formaliza hoje apoio a Dilma Rousseff

BRASÍLIA - Apesar dos ataques do deputado Ciro Gomes, a Executiva Nacional do PSB irá formalizar nesta terça-feira o apoio do partido à candidatura de Dilma Rousseff à Presidência, com a garantia de que não haverá rompimento por parte do deputado com o presidente Lula. Ciro já teria mandado recados para o partido de que vai aceitar a derrota e sair de cena.

Pela manhã, Dilma disse esperar que Ciro 'volte' a apoiar o PT .

"Eu não vou responder ao deputado Ciro Gomes. Eu acredito que ele é uma pessoa que sempre esteve ao nosso lado e espero que um dia volte a estar" - declarou.

A aposta, inclusive entre aliados de Ciro, é que ele vai pôr um ponto final nas hostilidades para preservar o futuro político do seu irmão, o governador Cid Gomes (PSB-CE), que disputa a reeleição.

http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/mat/2010/04/27/apesar-dos-ataques-de-ciro-gomes-psb-formaliza-hoje-apoio-dilma-rousseff-916440197.asp

Ciro Gomes is being forced to step down today since (according to him) PT made some threats not to support his brother in his election for governor of the state of Ceará among other threats to PSB (his party). The Green party candidate, Marisa Silva, also showed her disapproval for the oust of Gomes since it hurts Brazilian democracy with the lack of diversity in ideas and policies on the table.

Both Dilma Rousseff and José Serra wanted Ciro Gomes out of the picture because of the potential of Gomes hurting their chances. The former thinks that without Ciro she could win the election in October with a majority (avoiding the runoff in November) and the latter thinks that Gomes could hurt him in the runoff in November by gaining more supporters and using those supporters against him after losing in October. Ciro Gomes agrees that Serra is the one who benefits with with the death of his campaingn. Ciro Gomes also says that Serra is a better candidate since he has more experience than Rousseff who never even ran for office in her life.

Here are a couple of videos with a recent interview Ciro Gomes gave to SBT lamenting the obvious end of his campaign and making the claims above (Note: the videos are in Portuguese):

Ciro reaffirms that Serra is better than Dilma - http://noticias.uol.com.br/ultnot/multi/2010/04/23/04029A3266DCC14346.jhtm?no-sbt-ciro-reafirma-que-serra-e-melhor-que-dilma-04029A3266DCC14346

Ciro, "I will be complaining until Tuesday" - http://noticias.uol.com.br/ultnot/multi/2010/04/23/04029C3964DCC14346.jhtm?vou-espernear-ate-terca-diz-ciro-sobre-candidatura-04029C3964DCC14346