Rosángela ‘Janja’ da Silva, the leftist leader’s wife, wants to rethink the position and focus on priority issues for women such as food security or domestic violence
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva managed to return to Brazil’s presidency this Sunday. And the key to his win, he says, is his wife, Rosángela ‘Janja’ da Silva. «I am here, determined and strong, loving again, in love with my wife. She will give me the strength to face all obstacles,” said the 77-year-old left-wing leader, holding his partner hand in hand in front of a crowd in Sao Paulo after the announcement of the results that gave him the victory in the polls. delivered.
Smiling and jovial in appearance, at the age of 56, ‘Janja’ – as her friends called her – revealed a few weeks ago, at a ceremony in Rio de Janeiro before the first round of elections, that she plans to run the his position in the event that Lula triumphed in the presidential election. “I want to give new meaning to the concept of first lady or ‘first companion’, focusing on priority issues for women, such as food insecurity or domestic violence,” she said.
‘Janja’ is a “very politicized person, she has a good political mind and is very feminist,” her husband described her in an interview last year. Months later, she stated that she owns her “own thought” and that she would have “the freedom to think what she wants to do” as first lady. But to Lula, she’s his “amulet,” as the UOL portal came to describe her.
Rosángela practically did not give interviews and does not reveal much about her life, but over time she has become the shadow of the leftist leader. And it is that since Lula obtained the annulment of his convictions and was able to meet Jair Bolsonaro in the election, she accompanied him in almost all his meetings, trips and press conferences as a support on this journey. In addition, he built a bridge with artists and ‘influencers’ to gain support.
She is the third wife of Lula, who first married María de Lourdes in 1969 – she died of hepatitis two years later – and Marisa Leticia in 1974 – she died of a stroke in 2017. “When you lose your wife and you think that life has no meaning anymore, that everything is over, a person appears who starts to understand it again,” he told Time magazine at the time after he started dating his current wife.
Rosángela was born on the border between Santa Catarina and Paraná, in southern Brazil. He studied sociology at the Federal University of Paraná and worked for the energy company Itaipú Binacional in Curitiba for almost twenty years. As described by the leftist leader, his wife has been associated with politics. Affiliated with the Workers’ Party (PT) since 1983, she describes herself as a true “petista with a ticket” (petista is how the supporters of the formation founded by Lula are known). And now she wants to leave her mark on the country as first lady.
Source: La Verdad
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