Until the final days of the campaign, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva appeared to be heading for certain re-election as Brazil's president in the first round of voting on October ist. Then he made Brazilians angry. Last month members of his Workers' Party (PT) were caught with 1.75m reais ($800,000) in cash-the price of a dossier supposedly implicating Jose Serra, candidate of the centre-left Party of Brazilian Social Democracy (PSDB) for the governorship of Sao Paulo, in a long-running corruption scandal. Rather than apologise or explain, Lula ducked the final televised debate with his rivals.
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机译：在竞选活动的最后几天之前，路易斯·伊纳西奥·卢拉·达席尔瓦（Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva）似乎即将在10月1日进行的第一轮投票中再次当选巴西总统。然后他让巴西人生气。上个月，他的工人党（PT）的成员被捕以现金175万雷亚尔（800,000美元），这是一份卷宗的价格，据称牵涉到巴西左翼社会民主党（PSDB）州长候选人的何塞·塞拉（Jose Serra）。长期存在的腐败丑闻中卢拉没有道歉或解释，而与竞争对手进行了最后的电视辩论。
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