The results of last Sunday’s parliamentary elections left Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with a bittersweet taste. Although he has been nominated as favorite (getting 48.43% of the vote against 43.2% for his main rival, President Jair Bolsonaro), a runoff will be necessary. And your past can take its toll. From 2011, a succession of corruption scandals led to the political death of the leftist for at least 580 days, the time he spent behind bars after being accused of participating in a plot that benefited dozens of politicians and businessmen. A constant reminder of that dark phase of his life will be Sergio Moro, the judge who jailed the Workers’ Party (PT) candidate and won a Senate seat in the election.
In fact, Moro, a symbol in times of the fight against corruption at the South American giant, wanted to run for president, but his party, Unión Brasil, urged him to stop. On this occasion, the former magistrate won with 33.7% of the vote for the state of Paraná. He was ahead of Paulo Martins, the candidate closest to Bolsonaro (29.1%), Alvaro Dias (23.9%) and Rosane Ferreira (8%).
His fight against corruption has paid off, because it is precisely in Paraná that the former magistrate initially judged the causes of the so-called ‘Carwash Operation’, which in 2014 exposed the illegal plot and put several businessmen and politicians in prison. , including Lula herself. However, the Supreme Court later declared many of the cases null and void due to jurisdictional issues, declaring that Moro was not “impartial” in the trial of the leftist leader.
Moro left the judiciary in 2019 to become the head of justice for Bolsonaro, who had won the election a year earlier. He resigned from the ministerial post in 2020 after accusing the head of state of political interference in the federal police to promote his interests. His next step was to launch himself into the presidential race, in the thick of the polls that even placed him as the third favorite, with a 10% voting intention. However, his education took away from his name and he had to settle for aspiring to the Senate. He has achieved it.
Source: La Verdad
I am an experienced and passionate journalist with a strong track record in news website reporting. I specialize in technology coverage, breaking stories on the latest developments and trends from around the world. Working for Today Times Live has given me the opportunity to write thought-provoking pieces that have caught the attention of many readers.
