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Brazil votes in election defined by sleaze

The past few days have seen a dramatic turn-around as opposition candidates flayed President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the champion of Brazil's poor, over corruption scandals surrounding his Workers' Party. revelations that his campaign staff tried to buy information for a smear campaign against his main challenger Geraldo Alckmin gave a lackluster opposition new ammunition. It also reminded voters of a string of bribery and vote-buying scandals which have cost Lula's chief of staff, his finance minister and other aides their jobs.

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