SAO PAULO (AP) — The former environment minister who briefly led Brazil’s presidential race threw added support on Friday to the man who beat her for second place and a spot in a runoff election against President Dilma Rousseff.

Marina Silva, who finished third in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election, said she endorsed Aecio Neves partly due to a belief in alternation of power, an apparent reference to the nearly 12 years in power of Rousseff’s Workers Party.

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