Brazil presidential elections: Leftist Lula da Silva now claims he is maybe not running and sets conditions to continue

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – In an interview with the radio station Som Maior from Criciúma, Santa Catarina, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that his candidacy is not yet certain.

“I have not yet committed myself as a candidate, because I am waiting for talks with some political forces. I still want to travel around Brazil. I don’t want to be just the Worker’s PT candidate, I want to be the candidate of a movement that restores democracy in this country.”

“If I decide to run, all the press will be informed. I will announce the list that we will put up in Brazil, I will announce the parties that will work with us, and then the elections will begin.

The election has already begun and continues to polarize between him and Bolsonaro. The leftist politician sees no problem in this.

“You have to stop the nonsense of thinking that polarization is bad. It means that people are alive, that they have an opinion, that they defend what they believe in.

Behind the scenes, Lula da Silva is toughening his tone and setting conditions for his bid for the presidency of the Republic.

“If the vice president, the former governor Geraldo Alckmin, from São Paulo, is to be replaced, the PT should immediately look for a new candidate for president.”

The Lula-Alckmin candidacy will be announced in late April if it does not collapse by then.

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