The candidate to repeat Brazil’s presidency has lived an extensive career and a recent political resurrection in his 76 years that have led him to become the only one with the ability to oust Bolsonaro.
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Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Partido de los Trabajadores) is 76 years old and twenty years after he won his first election, emerges as the clear favorite to wear the Brazilian presidential sash, in his case for the third time.
Born in the Brazilian municipality of Caetés, his humble origins and workers they made it a mass phenomenon at the time. As a child, Lula fled starvation with his family from impoverished northeast Brazil to look for work in São Paulo, the country’s most industrialized region, where he built his trade union and political career, without leaving university.
He first brought the socialist revolution to the government of Brazil and remained in power for eight years. from 2003 to 2010.
Nostalgia pervades all of Lula’s campaign ads today, which continue to use the same slogan, “without fear of being happy”which he popularized from his first attempt at the presidency, in 1989when he was a fighter union leader feared by businessmen and by the wealthy classes.
Three decades later, Lula relies on a dozen today progressive parties with diverse tendencies and to confront President Jair Bolsonaro, he has even embraced former opponents such as conservative Geraldo Alckmin, his vice presidential candidate.
political resurrection
the successive corruption scandals discovered in his management and in that of his successor after his retirement, Dilma Rousseffcaused a gradual deterioration in his image.
Lula was convicted twice for those scandals and brought a year and a half in prisonwhich prevented him from being a candidate in the 2018 elections.
A year later, the Supreme Court quashed those two cases for: procedural errors and irregularitiesreturning Lula their freedom and their political rights.
He has since tried to clear his name and defend that the reason for his convictions was purely political, to… allow Bolsonaro’s election victory.
Despite the rejection of much of the population towards Lula due to corruption, his popularity has promoted him as the the only candidate with a chance to fire Bolsonarowith the flag of the defense of democracy and the memory of a happy Brazil.
A citizen with a picture of Lula da Silva waits in line to vote. Photo: EFE
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