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Brazil's Lula yet to pick names for vacant central bank seats, says ex-minister

BY Reuters | ECONOMIC | 09:22 AM EDT

SAO PAULO, March 20 (Reuters) - Brazil's former Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said on Friday that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has yet to choose candidates for two vacant seats on the central bank's board, and that he does not know what criteria will guide the picks.

Haddad, who last month revealed he suggested economists Guilherme Mello and Tiago Cavalcanti for the posts, said at a press conference that Lula at the time had merely asked for recommendations "as usual," and those were the names he offered. (Reporting by Marcela Ayres; Editing by Gabriel Araujo)

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