In his presidential bid Eduardo Campos, the former governor of Pemambuco, set out to break the mould of Brazilian politics, polarised between the ruling left-wing Workers' Party (pt) of President Dilma Rousseff and the centre-right Party of Brazilian Social Democracy (psdb), the main opposition. By cruel irony, Mr Campos's untimely death in a plane crash on August 13th may have improved the chances of a "third way" in October's election. A poll by Datafolha taken after the tragedy and published on August 18th gave Mr Campos's running-mate, Marina Silva, more than double his most recent showing (see chart). On August 20th Campos's centrist Brazilian Socialist Party (psb) duly blessed Ms Silva as his replacement, naming Beto Albuquerque, one of its congressmen, as her running mate.
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