Brazilian leftist Haddad not tap any banker as his future finance minister

Brazil's leftist presidential candidate Fernando Haddad said on Tuesday he will not tap any banker as his future finance minister if elected in an Oct. 28 run-off election.

Brazil's leftist presidential candidate Fernando Haddad said on Tuesday he will not tap any banker as his future finance minister if elected in an Oct. 28 run-off election.

"It may be an economist or business leader, but not a banker," Haddad told Radio Guaiba in an interview.

Haddad, who came in a distant second to far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro in Sunday's first-round vote, said his choice will be "the polar opposite" to Paulo Guedes, a University of Chicago-trained banker chosen by Bolsonaro to lead his economic policies.