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Brazilian elections on October 3 at the polls cited nine candidates to succeed President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, nominations are a clear example of the kaleidoscopic Brazilian politics.
Apart from the major candidates, the official Dilma Rousseff, the opposition and environmentalist José Serra Marina Silva, who together account for about 99% of the decided vote, according to polls, six candidates for the Planalto Palace asked to vote in this campaign .
Four of them represent a minority left-wing formations, at one time or another in their history, supported the Workers Party (PT) and Lula met around another candidate and is now heading to the polls more fragmented and atomized than ever.
"The PT is no longer a leftist party, the eight year term on the left weakened Lula," Efe said political analyst David Fleischer, a professor at the University of Brasilia.
The candidate best placed in the political spectrum is Plinio de Arruda Sampaio, Socialism and Freedom Party, a splinter group of PT in the last election managed to bring together most of the revolutionary leaning parties, but has not yet achieved consensus.
At 80 years, Arruda Sampaio is the only party candidates in Brazil called "dwarf" that has participated in all the debates on television with Rousseff, Serra and Silva, as electoral law requires invite you to have his party with parliamentary representation.
The Brazilian Communist Party presents Ivan Pinheiro and in their ads, supports their proposed revolutionary always a melancholy version of the anthem of the International background.
For the Socialist Workers Party (Unified PSTU), Trotskyist tendency, José Maria de Almeida rise and its slogan claims the vote against the bourgeois. "
The Workers' Cause Party (PCO), also a Trotskyist, running for Rui Costa to the presidency, but in many of its ads proselytizing or even calls for the vote, but that is devoted to report any abuse suffered by a particular labor union.
Apart from these formations with a clearly defined ideology, they go to elections two candidates who are "fruit of a political system and very loose rules for the creation of parties", according to Fleischer.
"They are inconsequential and irrelevant parties who have personal connections, an owner who makes a lot of money with the bid," said the political analyst who believes that in these two cases, the axiom is true "small parties, big business."
One such candidate is Jose Maria Eymael, Christian Democratic Party representative, who is running for a third time for President and has held a seat as deputy in two consecutive terms between 1986 and 1994.
Since his first election campaign, the candidate has used the same promotional song with a catchy chorus that says "Hey, Hey, Eymael, a Christian Democrat, who has become his best introduction.
The flagship of the Brazilian Labour Renewal Party, FIDELIX Levy has presented numerous elections since 1986 and never managed to be elected to any office.
FIDELIX television presenter and was made famous by the insistence with which he defended the construction of a train flying he called "hovertrain."
After Lula's government approved the construction of a high-speed line between Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, FIDELIX has stopped talking about your project, but in their ads is using a picture of a yellow and green train coming accompanying screen name.

Pope Benedict XVI held in November a "landmark" and a brief two-day trip to Spain, during which you will be greeted by the Princes of Asturias in Santiago de Compostela and consecrate the imposing cathedral of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, according to the official program released Friday by the Vatican.
During the visit, scheduled for 6 and 7 November, the pope will meet in Barcelona with the King of Spain Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia, while welcoming ceremony in Santiago de Compostela will be in charge of the Princes of Asturias, Felipe and Letizia.
The papal visit was announced officially last March due to extensive advance delicate time for relations between the local Church and the socialist government after it was adopted in February law enshrining free abortion for women in the first 14 weeks gestation and decriminalize abortion.
The program released by the Vatican for the trip number 18 since the beginning of his pontificate in 2005, does not include a stage in Madrid, which will visit in 2011 on the occasion of World Youth Days.
After being greeted at the airport Lavacolla in Santiago de Compostela, where he will deliver a speech, the Pope will travel aboard the Popemobile to the Cathedral Galicia.
After visiting the temple, where "a pilgrimage", enter through the Holy Door and pray at the tomb of the Apostle, lunch with the Spanish cardinals and members of the local Church.
In the afternoon held an outdoor Mass in the square Obradoiro, opposite the Cathedral, to mark the Year of St James.
The largest core of Catholic pilgrimage, after Jerusalem and Rome, is visited by about 6 million tourists, of whom some 200,000 pilgrims.
The Year of St James is celebrated when the 25th of July, feast of St. James, is on Sunday, and during, the Pope grants plenary indulgence for Catholics who come to the city.
The pope then stay overnight in Barcelona, the goal of his second day in Spain, on 7 November.
The pope devoted in that city expiatory church of La Sagrada Familia, the striking modernist cathedral by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926), whose construction began in 1882, 128 years ago, and still is not finished.
The masterpiece of Gaudi, who died hit by a tram in 1926 was only built one of the 18 towers of the initial project has been included in 2005 by the UNESCO list of World Heritage sites.
Before the ceremony, the Pope will meet privately with the Spanish kings in the church of the Sagrada Familia.
In addition to the dedication Mass, pray the Angelus on Sunday.
In the afternoon visit the charity "Child God", which serves children with disabilities and delays, after which they return to Rome.
This is the second visit of the German Pontiff made to Spain after his first voyage in 2006 for the V World Meeting of Families in Valencia, during which he met with the prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

 Two carabinieri (police) make a "chopped"-soccer match with Luis, a miner's family child Mario Gomez, who is trapped in a copper mine at 700 meters in northern Chile.
Luis runs after the ball, while the soldiers kick the ball in various directions.
It is unusual to see police officers, journalists and family to share moments of relaxation in the "Camp Hope, where we await the final redemption of workers that could occur in early November, according to official estimates.
Five women, relatives of the 33 miners trapped in a mine in northern Chile, with smiles seen a poster of several meters, with individual photos of each of them, at Camp Hope, on the outskirts of San Jose site.
"This peladito (felt) is the best," says one, pointing to the picture of Jose Ojeda, drivers of heavy machinery. There is good humor among relatives that they expect soon to parents, husbands and brothers.
BUILD CAGES RESCUE - 21H00 GMT. Three metal cage to rescue the 33 miners trapped in a mine in northern Chile began to be built by the Chilean Navy, while the Austrian Ostu-Stettin was selected to draw up the lifting system.
The cage is a metal structure inside which are placed one by one the 33 miners trapped in a copper mine in northern Chile.
The structure, according to the Navy ahead, will have between 2 and 2.5 meters long and 55 to 60 cm in diameter.
SOLIDARITY FROM CANADA 18:30 GMT - Andy King, who claims to be Canadian mining leader, reached the San José mine in northern Chile where 33 miners are trapped since Aug. 5 and a month ago were located.
"We represent 20,000 workers, miners in Canada ... Canadian miners feel touched" with what happened at the scene, King said with the help of an interpreter. The labor leader met with a group of relatives.
"EVERYTHING is going well" 1600 GMT - At noon Nelly Burger, Victor Zamora's mother, one of 33 miners trapped in a mine in northern Chile, receives several calls to his cell phone. In a good mood, "she says news is very encouraging. "Everything is going well," says the woman to a party, apparently another family member who wants to know fresh news from the San José mine.

The Nicaraguan authorities have evacuated on Friday to about 4,000 residents at critical points in areas of northern Nicaragua to the passage of Tropical Storm Matthew ', as reported by the head of Civil Defense, General Mario Perezcassar.
The military chief has informed official circles that among the first evacuees are the Miskito Keys fishermen and other inhabitants of this region.
Perezcassar said that in a second stage of the evacuation will continue in 16 other communities in the Caribbean for a total of 10,000 evacuees in coastal areas and riverbanks.
90 shelters enabled
The Government of Nicaragua declared on Thursday 'yellow alert' (prevention) in the Caribbean, North and South, and 'green' (caution) in the center and Pacific country, and has already enabled 90 shelters for people who may be affected by the rains and winds associated with the storm.
The general recalled that the weather phenomenon stood at 11.00 local time (17.00 GMT) 85 kilometers from the town of Puerto Cabezas, capital of the northern Caribbean, with rains and winds of 85 kilometers per hour.
Sources of Civil Defense and Fire Department of Puerto Cabezas have confirmed that the city awoke to rain and moderate winds.
The National Hurricane Center United States has reported in its bulletin of 15:00 (GMT) that 'Matthew' carries sustained winds of 85 mph and is moving with a speed of 32 kilometers per hour.

A GPS hidden in special boots he used Victor Julio Suarez Rojas, alias Mono Jojoy, military commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, allowed security forces to find the camp where he was a refugee.
   Official sources quoted by the RCN radio station revealed that intelligence work be done about the diabetes that he suffered the guerrilla leader who was forced to use a special shoe injuries were on his feet.
   The GPS arrived Mono Jojoy in shoes that were sent after the police knew of this need, the head of the FARC to intercept the communications of some rebels. Thereafter, able to establish the place where the shelter.
   As reported by the Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera, people close to the well known 'Jorge Briceño Suárez' have collaborated to develop the military operation it fell in the early hours of Thursday.
   "Operation Sodom ', which was ordered on Monday by President Juan Manuel Santos, took place at dawn Thursday in the jungle region of La Magdalena, Meta department, where she was located the main refuge of the.
   "Mono Jojoy 'was hidden in a concrete bunker more than 300 meters protected by several rings of security consisting of between 600 thousand guerillas. But also the military commander had a permanent escort of 52 people, mostly women, local media reported.