RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, ex-president, an ex-convict, and new presidential candidate for Brazil’s 2022 elections, announces in a video how he envisions the future should he win the fall 2022 presidential election.
From 2023, Brazil should have what China’s communist regime already has: a strong party with power, a strong state that citizens listen to and comply with.
In July 2017, ex-President Lula da Silva was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison for money laundering and corruption in a controversial trial.
The federal judge in the case, Sergio Moro, later became Minister of Justice and Public Security in Jair Bolsonaro’s government.
After an unsuccessful appeal, Lula da Silva was arrested in April 2018 and spent 580 days in prison. He attempted to run in the 2018 presidential election but was disqualified under Brazil’s “clean slate” law.
However, Lula da Silva could count on his friends in the Supreme Court, and some powerful justices on that body are arch-enemies of incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro.
In November 2019, the Supreme Federal Court miraculously ruled that detentions with pending appeals were illegal, after which Lula was released from prison.
In March 2021, Supreme Court Justice Edson Fachin ruled that all of Lula’s convictions must be nullified because he was convicted by a court that did not have jurisdiction over his case.
Fachin’s ruling, which was upheld by other Supreme Court justices in April 2021, restored Lula’s political rights, allowing him to run for president again.
The Supreme Federal Court later ruled in March 2021 that Justice Moro, who presided over his corruption trial, was biased. All of Moro’s cases against Lula were declared null and void on June 24, 2021.