BRASIL: Debut Of The Lula Clones.

GUARDIAN/ Tom Phillips/ At least four candidates are running under Lula da Silva's name, with the hope that his immense popularity...will get them elected.

PHILLIPS: "We have a president with approval ratings of more than 80% and I think this would help anyone who has the same name or looks like him," said Luiz "Lula" da Silva. He is running for federal deputy in São Paulo and his bushy beard and virtually identical name are said to have shocked the president himself.
"It's natural. It's just like looking like Obama – that will give anyone a boost," said São Paulo's Lula, a former gravedigger and member of the president's Workers Party, who is running on an anti-crack cocaine ticket. "We are similar in many ways. He thinks I'm the guy who looks most like him in the whole of Brazil."