Former environment minister Marina Silva is to be named as the Brazilian Socialist Party's new presidential candidate after its candidate died in a plane crash earlier this week, the party's chairman told the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper Saturday. Eduardo Campos, 49, the nominee of the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) in the October 5 election, was killed Wednesday along with six other people when a small private plane crashed in a residential area in Santos in Sao Paulo state. Silva, 56, had been the party's candidate for vice president. She is expected to be formally named the PSB candidate on Wednesday. -- SPA 22:53 LOCAL TIME 19:53 GMT تغريد