Soon to be 77-year-old Lula da Silva confirms he will run in Brazil’s 2022 presidential election
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva confirmed Wednesday (02) during a visit to Mexico that he will run again for his country’s presidency next October.
“We plan to run in Brazil’s new elections,” the former Brazilian president said during his participation in the second gathering of lawmakers from President Andrés López Obrador’s National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party in Mexico City.
The Workers’ Party (PT) leader thus cleared the uncertainty about his candidacy for the third time as president of the Latin American country.
The symbol of the Latin American left affirmed that he has maintained the energy of his beginnings in politics and believes that Brazil needs a new government.
Given that he or his allies have ruled the country virtually single-handedly since the turn of the millennium, if he wins the election it is more likely to be said that Brazil would get back the same old same old.
Conservative Jair Bolsonaro would then have been only the exception to the rule, although even that would not be true, since de facto it is not Bolsonaro who currently governs the country but the Supreme Court, which in its decisions acts as if it were the Worker’s Party.
Lula da Silva stressed that after meeting with the Mexican president this morning, he committed to come to Mexico “to consolidate the great political relations that will take place in 2023.”
The visit to Mexico comes when Brazil, Latin America’s largest democracy, is preparing for presidential elections in October, in which Lula da Silva and the current president, conservative Jair Bolsonaro, are expected to be the main candidates.
Da Silva’s electoral intentions have intensified since the ex-convict miraculously, and thanks to active help from his friends in the Brazilian Supreme Court, regained his political rights in March 2020 after a Brazilian federal judge invalidated all his convictions and allowed him to enter the race for power.
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