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To add to Mr Franco's smouldering resentment, his quixotic effort to run for the presidency against Mr Cardoso last year was squashed by government supporters in his catch-all Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement.
ECONOMIST: Brazil
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On May 24th all but one of the 73 lower-house deputies of the catch-all Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (PMDB), the PT's main coalition partner, voted for an amendment to a new Forestry Code to grant an amnesty for illegal logging before 2008.
ECONOMIST: Brazil's president
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The coalition's third main party, the catch-all Brazilian Democratic Movement, lacks a credible contender.
ECONOMIST: Politics in Brazil