Socialist candidate for president of Brazil, Eduardo Campos, died yesterday at age 49 in a plane crash in Santos (southeast), in a tragedy that alters the political stage for the October elections.
Campos, third in the polls for the elections of October 5 and running mate environmentalist Marina Silva, traveling in a Cessna 560XL jet that was carrying 7 people and crashed into a gym and several homes in the port city of Santos , 75 km from San Pablo. There were no survivors.
With an extensive political career as a former governor of Pernambuco, and deputy minister, the Socialist presidential candidate proposed a third way the Workers Party (PT, in power) and the Party of Social Democracy (PSDB, opposition), that govern the country for two decades.
The unexpected death of Campos check left the Socialist Party of Brazil and can affect the outcome of the elections on October 5. In theory, Marina Silva could take place if the PSB Campos asks you, and to be a more important rival Campos President Dilma Rousseff and opposition Aetius Neves (PSDB), first and second surveys, respectively.
Rousseff decreed three days of official mourning and suspended campaign activities for the same period.
Marina Silva confessed, visibly moved, his "deep sadness" at the event.
Initially Marina Silva, a former environment minister of Lula, born in a community dedicated to the extraction of rubber from the Amazon and illiterate until age 16, wanted to be a presidential candidate in the October elections.
But he failed to register his party Red Sustainability at the highest electoral body that not enough signatures were verified, and that last year temporarily allied to PSB and decided to be his running mate de Campos.
In 2010, Silva and was nominated for the presidency and won third place, with almost 20% of the vote.
The latest survey IBOPE, July, gave Rousseff as favorite for re-election with 38%, followed by its main rival, the Social Aetius Neves, with 22%. Third Campos was located, with 8%.
Previous surveys, however, Marina Silva pointed out that if the presidential candidate, not fields, would go on to a runoff against Rousseff instead of Neves, with a final victory for the current president.
The Sao Paulo Stock Exchange, the largest in Latin America, came to fall 2% on the news of the accident but recovered somewhat to close down from 1.53%.
bad weather
The aircraft was carrying Campos, two of its advisers, a videographer, a photographer and two pilots took off from Santos Dumont Airport in Rio de Janeiro, bound for the airport Guarujá (coast of San Pablo). When preparing to land, the plane suddenly turned up "due to weather" and "immediately the air traffic control lost contact with the aircraft," he said.
In the crash, the jet smashed lay amid rubble on fire, where a column of smoke rose. Several houses were burning. The bodies of the victims were charred and disintegrated and should be recognized through DNA and dental records, estimated rescuers.
Lula expressed his sadness at the death of "a great friend and companion." "The country loses a public man of rare and extraordinary quality," he said in a statement on its former Minister of Science and Technology.
The White House also conveyed his condolences. "We are deeply saddened by the death of fields," said the spokesman of the National Security Council USA, Caitlin Hayden.
Rousseff: "We lost a great Brazilian"
The president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, who is seeking reelection in the coming October elections, declared three days of mourning and canceled his campaign for the death of the socialist candidate, Eduardo Campos.
Rousseff said she was "very sad" over the death of who was to be one of his rivals in the polls. "The whole of Brazil is in mourning. We lost today to a great Brazilian, Eduardo Campos. We lost a great companion, "Rousseff said in a message on Facebook.
"Steve and I had a long coexistence in the Lula government in the years 2006, 2010 and during my administration," he said. The president recalled that stayed together "for the last time," Campos at the funeral of writer and poet Ariano Suassuna, who qualifies as "our dear friend."
"We talked as friends. We were always clear that our eventual political differences were minor in relation to mutual respect characteristic of our coexistence, "said the message.
"He was a husband and father. In this time of deep sorrow, my thoughts are with Renata, a lifetime partner and their beloved children. I'm sad. My condolences to the families of the victims of this tragedy, "the president said."
Marina Silva: "He fought for a better world"
The vice presidential candidate of Brazil, Marina Silva, expressed "deep sorrow" at the death of his mate, the Socialist presidential candidate Eduardo Campos ". "This is a tragedy that imposes a profound sadness I know that Brazilians are sharing," said Marina Silva, excited.
"In ten months of living I learned to respect, admire and trust their attitudes and ideals of life," he said.
"It was ten months of intense experiences" fighting for "the hope of a better world, more fair," added the 56 known environmentalist, deeply religious, who asked God "to support" and comfort the wife and children of the candidate deceased.
Sheathed in a black scarf and visibly haggard face, the candidate who shall be elected by the presidential Brazilian Socialist Party to replace Fields in the coming days, he spoke slowly, with effort. Silva did not indicate whether it will be the presidential candidate to replace Campos, and neither did anyone from the PSB.
The US coalition representing Brazil's candidacy Campos read a statement by Silva in which he stated that "the loss of Campos ends its life but not with their ideas."
Eduardo Campos aspired to become the leader of a third political means in a traditional family país.Proveniente political left and considered very young great promise of Brazilian politics, Eduardo Henrique Campos Accioly born on August 10, 1965 in Recife, capital of Pernambuco (northeast), the son of a poet, Maximiliano Campos (1941-1998) and a former deputy and current judge of the Court of Auditors of the country, Ana Arraes.
His grandfather Miguel Arraes, a politician known, also affiliated with the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB), died on August 13, 2005, at age 88.
Precocious student formed in economy at age 20, Campos decided at that time to go into politics, and in 1986 renounced a master in the United States to get involved in the campaign that elected governor of Pernambuco his grandfather, who during the dictatorship had been deposed from that office.
At 29 he was elected deputy, and until 1998 served as Government Secretary and then Finance in the administration of his grandfather.
Likeable, affable and excellent relationship with all Brazilian politicians, Campos in 2005 became governor of his home state, Pernambuco, a post to which he was reelected in 2010 Campos was an ally of the government of the Workers Party (PT, left in power) since the arrival of Lula to the presidency in 2003 in 2004, before being elected governor, was his Minister of Science and Technology.
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