Brazil’s president may not run again in 2014

Brazilian President Dilma
Rousseff has not yet decided whether she or her predecessor,
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, will be her party’s candidate in the
next election in 2014, a leading minister said in an interview
published on Wednesday.

Communications Minister Paulo Bernardo said Rousseff, who
took office on Jan. 1, was the likely candidate “if she has the
desire to run.” But he said she would first need to talk it
over with Lula, who remains extremely popular.

“I don’t see that question being resolved without a
conversation between the two of them. It’s very early still,”
Bernardo said in an interview published on the website of
newspaper Folha de S.Paulo.