Brazil’s president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, said in an interview on a local TV station on Tuesday that he would not discuss miner Vale’s succession.
On Monday, Brazil’s government was again reported by local media as trying to interfere in Vale’s succession, after the government had denied earlier this year that it sought to influence the discussions of who would be the next CEO of the company.
(Reporting by Andre Romani and Steven Grattan; Editing by Himani Sarkar)