BRASILIA: Environmentalist Marina Silva, who emerged as a key power-broker after Brazil's first-round election, is leaning toward endorsing business favorite Aecio Neves for president, though it could provoke a rift with her party, reports said Tuesday.

Silva's Socialist party will Wednesday unveil its strategy for the October 26 run-off after she finished third on Sunday behind leftist incumbent Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party (PT) and Neves of the Social Democracy Party (PSDB).

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