Symbol copyright EPA Symbol caption Many delegates on the conference wore Lula facemasks
Former Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva has been nominated to run for office once more in October’s elections despite recently being in prison on a 12-12 months sentence for corruption.
Some 2,000 members of his Employees Party declared him their candidate by means of a show of fingers in Sao Paulo.
Lula leads most opinion polls however may not be allowed to stand.
He has denied taking bribes and says his conviction is a part of a plot to forestall him returning to power.
A message from the former leader was once learn to party participants, many wearing Lula mask, who had accumulated for a tradition in Brazil’s main city.
Image copyright AFP Image caption Lula is still looking ahead to a judgement on whether he can stand in the election
The appointment is important as the vice-presidential selection could potentially be elected president if Lula isn’t allowed to stand.
Polls suggest Lula has almost double the reinforce of his nearest rivals.
Two different applicants had been additionally nominated on Saturday – Marina Silva by way of the centre-left Rede birthday party and Geraldo Alckmin by the centre-right Social Democracy Celebration.
Lula was once convicted of receiving a renovated beachfront rental price a few 3.7m reais ($1.1m; £790,000) as a bribe by means of engineering company OAS.
The defence says his ownership of the condominium has never been confirmed and that his conviction rests largely at the word of the former chairman of OAS, himself convicted of corruption.
Lula misplaced his first enchantment in January, while the appeals court docket not just upheld his conviction but higher the sentence from 9-and-a-part years to 12.
He continues to be looking ahead to a final courtroom judgement on whether or not he can run, but beneath present law any person who loses an appeal towards a prison conviction cannot stand for the presidency.
