Brazil's former environment minister Marina Silva launches new political party
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Former environment minister and presidential candidate Marina Silva has launched a new political party with an eye on next year's presidential elections.
The new party is called "Sustainability Network." It was launched in Brasilia Saturday at a meeting of politicians, congressmen and other Silva supporters.
Marina said "it is not a party created just for the elections" and said it "calls for a new vision of the world, in which we will be participants and not just spectators."
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Silva did not say if she plans to run for the presidency in 2014. Marina served in the Cabinet of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
She won a surprising 20 million votes, or 19 percent of the total, in a first round of voting when she ran for president in 2010.