Analysis-Lula turns to party's old guard for Brazil election battle

FILE PHOTO: Former Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who will run in October's elections, takes part in an event organized by labor unions during Workers Day in Sao Paulo, Brazil May 1, 2022. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazil's leftist former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has turned to veteran comrades in his Workers Party (PT) to run his presidential campaign, shoring up his base after appeals to the center raised tensions with the party's old guard.

Although Lula has lured moderate voters with a centrist running mate and calls for a broad center-left coalition in the October election, the most senior roles in his campaign are so far going to his longtime associates and former PT ministers, party sources told Reuters.