Mr da Silva has invited their small, soft-left parties to join him in government.
The opposition alliance, which links Frepaso with the ancient, soft-left Radical party, called a debate in Congress.
The two soft-left contenders, Ciro Gomes and Anthony Garotinho, were fading away.
Several other challengers, such as Itamar Franco, Mr Cardoso's quirky predecessor, and Ciro Gomes, a soft-left former state governor, seem to be fading.
In last month's election for mayor of Buenos Aires city, he backed the soft-left incumbent, who defeated a challenger supported by the Peronist party machine.
One explanation for Mr Chirac's embrace of a soft-left, statist, instinctively anti-capitalist creed could be that he is playing Mr Blair's post-ideological game of stealing the opposition's clothes ahead of the 2007 presidential election.
And in the north-eastern city of Fortaleza, defeat for Patricia Gomes, a soft-left challenger, could hurt two potential presidential candidacies, those of Ciro Gomes, her ex-husband and campaign adviser, and of Tasso Jereissati, the governor of Ceara.
Although the arm is missing, fingers of his left hand press into the soft flesh of his hip, an unusually casual gesture for an Olympian hero.
In the past few weeks, Mr Gore has reverted to the attack-dog mode that served him so well in previous campaigns, such as the one in 1988 when he savaged Michael Dukakis (another north-eastern centre-left Democrat) for being soft on crime.
Just look realistically at the electorate, and not through the rose colored lenses of the party itself: Most American voters are in that soft middle, between the Right Center and Left Center.
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All of which means that Mr Jospin is suddenly under pressure to defend his plan against accusations, from most of the right and some of the left, that it is not just soft on terrorists but is also unleashing a separatist spirit which, by encouraging the Basques, the Bretons, the Alsatians and others, risks dismembering the republic.
Lampard stepped up to take the spot-kick but Sorensen got down to his left and held the England man's soft, side-footed effort - making it a third penalty miss in a row for the midfielder.
Ayres and Soft Machine toured the USA extensively with Jimi Hendrix but he left the band in 1968 after their first album.
But now, right-handed hitters like Alex Rodriguez are forced to deal with the shift, seeing a mass of infielders in the left-field space where he used to deposit soft line drives for hits.
Up 78-71 with 3:40 left in the third, Wade tried to throw a soft lob to James, on the play where he got leveled by Boozer and Robinson sent James into an awkward collision with the basket stanchion.
He puts his left arm around my seat, and starts whistling, a soft pulsing sound that calms the heart and flows into the chaos outside.
However, that was an advantage probably flattered by how Button had been able to save two new sets of the faster super-soft tyres, one for each run, whereas those in other teams had only one set left, having been forced to use their other sets to get through qualifying sessions one and two.
He's known for No Child Left Behind and for this - the phrase that he used during his first campaign, the soft bigotry of low expectations.
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