SÃO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, BRAZIL: Brazil’s election frontrunner and controversial leftist icon Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was negotiating the terms of his arrest for corruption on Saturday while remaining holed up with crowds of fervent supporters near Sao Paulo.

Lula, a two-time former president who is hated and loved in Brazil by equal measure, had been told to surrender on Friday to start serving a 12 year prison term.

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