Former
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said Lula "is an idea,"
the very "symbol of Brazil."
Whether
“free or imprisoned,” Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva “will be
elected president” of Brazil following October's general election
according to former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. Speaking
during a visit to Buenos Aires, Argentina on Workers' Day she said
Lula had become more than an individual, “he is an idea” that has
“converted into the symbol of Brazil, of opportunities of which the
people can grow.”
Dilma
said the recent attacks on Lula, his character, and the Brazilian
Workers Party are all part of a lawfare against the leftist agenda in
the country and explained to the audience at the "The Truth Will
Prevail" Buenos Aires International Book Fair that she feared
for Lula's life.
"I
fear for Lula's life. I fear for the food that he eats and the water
he drinks. I fear it because they have denied him medical
visitations,” she said.
She
explained that his political opponents need Lula's imprisonment
because they “lack a candidate” capable of winning the upcoming
presidential election and linked the move to the "parliamentary
coup,” which lead to her impeachment in 2016.
May Day
saw Brazilian cities flooded with thousands of protesters demanding
jobs and Lula’s release. Vagner Freitas, the head of the Central
Workers’ Union, said judge Sergio Moro, who is in charge of the Car
Wash hearings wants to "prevent (a Lula) victory," in the
presidential elections.
Workers'
Day also saw Lula release another letter to his supporters, telling
them to "continue to resist together because we’re in this
just cause for democracy, for the rights of the people."
Having
been detained at the federal police headquarters in Curitiba since
April 7, for supposedly receiving an apartment as a kickback in the
national Car Wash corruption scandal, Lula also denounced the
drive-by shooting on the Free Lula camp last Saturday.
Two
people were injured, with one of them, Jefferson Lima de Menezes,
said to be in serious condition with a bullet wound that penetrated
his neck. Nobody has been arrested in relation to the armed assault.
Despite
his conviction and imprisonment for corruption, events that many
legal experts and observers attribute to lawfare and a salacious
mainstream media campaign, Lula has topped every 2018 electoral poll
conducted by Vox Populi, Ibope, Datafolha, Data Poder 360, Instituto
Parana, the National Confederation of Transportation/MDA and Ipsos.
Lula's
two terms in office were marked by a slew of social programs, lifting
millions of Brazilians out of poverty and removing the country from
the United Nations World Hunger Map. He left office with a record
approval rating of 83 percent in 2011, according to Datafolha.
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