Jacques Wagner, governor of the Bahia province and part of the Workers Party (PT), has already invited Gabrielli to form part of his government.
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By early last month, Mr Cardoso's once huge opinion-poll lead over his main, and only menacing, rival, the Workers Party's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, had been cut below five points.
In 2005, Mr Lula made her his chief of staff, a post she held until March 2010, when she launched her campaign for the presidency as the Workers Party (PT) candidate.
Likewise, it is unlikely that the enabling attitudes of the Workers Party Government in Brazil will change or that the Peronist government in Argentina will withdraw its enthusiastic support for the Bolivarian government and its allies.
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As the first female Chief of Staff under reformist President Lula da Silva, appointed in 2005, she was widely expected to be his successor to continue the Workers Party's economic policies set in motion during his term.
The Turkish military says at least a dozen soldiers were killed after these rebels from the Kurdish Workers Party - it's called the PKK - ambushed a Turkish Army patrol yesterday.
The leader of the Spanish opposition party, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), Joaquin Almunia, rejected ETA's claim that it was resuming the armed struggle because the other Basque parties had failed to rally to its call for pan-Basque elections.
The Workers' Party won six seats, the most the opposition has held since independence in 1965.
Of greater importance, the grassroots of the ruling Workers party (PT) in Brazil has a strong pro-Chavez component.
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He was soon back in court as well as in parliament, accused of misstating the Workers' Party's accounts.
Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party is narrowly ahead of the Social Democratic Party's Jose Serra in recent polls.
Olivio Dutra, the Workers' Party governor of Rio Grande do Sul, has paid its debt dues into an escrow account.
Leftish candidates gained ground: the Workers' Party beat its most optimistic forecasts.
The Workers' Party, which holds one seat, plans to contest elections alone.
For while the government has been keeping the Workers' Party and its congressional allies happy by spraying money around, Brazil has been changing.
On Tuesday, former chief of staff Jose Dirceu, the Workers' Party's former president, Jose Genoino, and treasurer Delubio Soares were found guilty of corruption.
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Tang, a 61-year-old lawyer who ran for Parliament and narrowly lost under the Workers' Party banner, called his accusers liars in the The Straits Times newspaper.
He introduced free-market economics to Turkey and also made efforts to secure peace with Kurdish militants, negotiating a ceasefire with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) shortly before he died.
Lula wants Mr Sarney to swing the weight of the PMDB, and its patronage machine, behind Dilma Rousseff, the probable candidate of the ruling Workers' Party in the presidential election next year.
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"Foro", as it is commonly known, is an inter-American organization founded in 1990 by the then leader of the Brazilian Workers party and now President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva.
Even though most analysts feared that President Lula from the Workers' Party would lead his country towards socialism, the Brazilian leader has been able to moderate his positions, adopting market friendly economic policies.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in 1949, but Orwell was first set on the road to it at least 12 years earlier when he was fighting Franco's insurgents in Spain as a member of a left-wing, but non-Stalinist militia, the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM).
And Porto Alegre, a city in southern Brazil run since 1988 by the opposition Workers' Party, has led the region in getting the public involved in monitoring and influencing how their taxes are spent.
He had also angered members of the Wales Labour Party by writing to the Communications Workers' Union suggesting they should not give the party money if they did not like its policies.
Turkish warplanes routinely strike bases of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, a Turkish rebel group operating from the Qandil mountains of Iraq's Kurdish region.
Yet Mr Erdogan seems to be moving back to a purely military solution to the conflict with rebels in the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
But the possible victory of the leftist Workers' Party (PT), led by three-time presidential election loser Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has also made investors nervous.
Many argue that since Turkey is bogged down in a 28-year-old war against rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), it cannot afford military adventures elsewhere.
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The ruling Workers' Party has maintained orthodox domestic economic policies.
But Hugh Pope, senior Turkey analyst for the International Crisis Group, told CNN he saw the killings in the context of negotiations that have been under way between the Turkish government and a variety of Kurdish leaders, including the jailed head of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, Abdullah Ocalan, since November.
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