Brazil election 2022: Lula da Silva to stop Correios, Eletrobras, and Banco do Brasil privatization

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Former President and current presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers’ Party – PT) said during a speech at the Vila Soma occupation in Sumaré (São Paulo) that he would try to avoid the privatization of Eletrobras, Correios (Brazilian Postal Service), and Banco do Brasil.

“We will fight, try to avoid that Correios, Eletrobras, and Banco do Brasil be privatized. We will recover Petrobras for the Brazilian people,” said the former president, ignoring that he has been convicted for corruption involving Petrobras.

During the event, da Silva also said that President Jair Bolsonaro (PL), his direct opponent in the October elections, does not receive other governors or representatives of social movements, listens only to his children and “the militia that surrounds him,” and governs based on fake news.

“He keeps causing terror; he lies seven times a day through fake news. The people are sovereign, and Bolsonaro keeps putting fear in people,” added the former president.

“Bolsonaro says that [Lula da Silva’s] campaign will be dirty, there will be lies, aggressiveness. I want to say to this citizen who, by chance, became president of the Republic: we will have a clean campaign, it won’t be aggressive, there won’t be fake news,” said da Silva while attacking and spreading false information about Jair Bolsonaro.

On the outskirts of Sumaré, Vila Soma, about 120 km from São Paulo City, is an occupation built with the help of federal funds made available by the Dilma Rousseff (PT) government. The community arose from a settlement, in 2012, of an area of almost 1 million square meters, abandoned after the bankruptcy of the former company Soma Equipamentos Industriais in the 1990s.

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