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Only hours away from the October 1st elections, an anxious Lula da Silva knows that he is under investigation by the nation's electoral court under corruption charges. The electoral court's inquiry will focus on the president's suspected participation in his party's purchase of a slanderous dossier on José Serra, Lula's opponent during the 2002 presidential contest and currently the Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB) candidate for the upcoming São Paolo gubernatorial race. 
On Sunday October 1st, 2006, more than 120 million Brazilians will head to an electronic ballot box, push some buttons and decide the fate of the country for at least the next four years. They will be choosing their president and vice-president, twenty-seven governors, senators and state assemblies, as well as 513 federal deputies. 
A challenge from the left has shaken up Brazil's presidential election, which the incumbent, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, was expected to easily win. 
What to do when your divorce is dragged out in long court proceedings... For Maria Christina Mendes Caldeira, the answer was simple: run against her ex-husband for Congress. Given Brazilian politics' propensity for dirty campaigning, the result is nonetheless one of the most unique and interesting political races to be decided in Sunday's election, at least for São Paulo voters -at least for soap opera fans.
One minute, the president-candidate Lula chastises the PT "nut cases." Hours before, he squealed against the "press partisanship" just because it investigates the mess from those same nut cases. Who is a nut case? What's the purpose of this madness climate?