Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva becomes president for the third time at the age of 77 and after spending 580 days in prison, accused of corruption
Brazil of hope. It is the motto that accompanies Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has just joined the select club of the world’s longest-serving presidents and one of the few to have won democratic elections three times. Lula is the protagonist of the happiest movie Brazil has seen in recent decades. He was born in Caetés, in the state of Pernambuco, on October 27, 1945. On his social media account, which he was not very regular on, he writes: “Son of Dona Lindu, husband of Janja. I was a metalworker and president of Brazil with an approval rating of 87%.” And a ‘hashtag’ that reads #BrasilDaEsperanza.
At the age of 77, this man has become the future of a country with the highest unemployment rate in the region and where some 30 million people still live in poverty and do not have enough to eat three times a day. A country where the majority of the population thinks there is a lot of political corruption.
The Brazilian people have reached out for the third time to the man who ruled them between 2003 and 2010, the one who put them on the world map, who went through social and economic reforms, who tripled the GDP per capita to make Brazil a to create a world of power. Lula exploited this good management during the election campaign, although it was also riddled with unproven corruption scandals, and in fact he was the first president to spend 580 days in prison charged with “passive corruption.”
But since that past that more than half of Brazilians longed for, he has convinced with phrases that have touched the hearts of his people: “The best years of our country were the years when I reigned,” he said in the latest debate . with Jair Bolsonaro. And he expanded by recalling that he wanted to rebuild Brazil in which there was no hatred, in which people worked, did not suffer from hunger as one of the major food producers in the world, was regarded internationally and culture and education worked.
He seems tired, but feels strong enough to rule the country again, helped by the people. Because what he insists most is all to rule together, without fighting and harmonizing all societies. It was always clear to him during the tense election campaigns that the election was not only pitting Lula against Bolsonaro, or his party, the workers, and his rival, the Liberal Party, but a democratic regime against a regime close to neo-fascism. For many of his social media followers, Lula represents the hope, love and unity of the Brazilian people.
In his entrepreneurship program, Lula has promised to guarantee support to small and medium-sized businesses, while at the same time announcing that he will meet with all the governors of the country (27) and ask each of them to present at least three priority infrastructure works. From that happy world in which Brazil lived during the Lula mandates, the statesman who has no university degree, who was a trade unionist, the man who was married three times, proudly recalls that his government established the Ministry for Women and takes advantage of say that it will thoroughly combat violence against women.
Before the first round of elections, there were several critics who felt that Brazil needed a younger candidate, a president with new ideas. It couldn’t be. Lula da Silva, that man who as a child did not want to starve to death in his hometown and left with his mother and brothers, that trade unionist who organized one of the major strikes that took the first step to overthrow the military dictatorship in 1964, the same one who Presidential candidate in 1989, 1994 and 2002, is for the third time in its history the politician chosen to determine the fate of one of the most populous countries in the world.
Lula knows he has worldwide recognition. Not surprisingly, he was received in the middle of the campaign by the German chancellor and by the presidents of France and Spain. In particular, Pedro Sánchez gave him a major award in a video in which he stated that Brazil needed a president of progress, who offered no mistrust, who gave hope and no fear, and who was committed to equality and against those who preach hate and climate denial.
Lula, at age 77, has become the man Brazilians have pinned their hopes on for a better future.
Source: La Verdad
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