LULA IS ELECTED PRESIDENT: BRAZIL IS HAPPY AGAIN

 

 

 

 247 - Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) was elected President of the Republic this Sunday (30) with approximately 57,132,197 million votes and 50.68% of valid votes, defeating Jair Bolsonaro (PL), who received about 56,175,568 million votes and 49.32% of valid votes. Lula defeated Bolsonaro by a difference of more than 1.5 million votes. In the first round of the election, the difference between Lula and Bolsonaro was more than 6 million. , by representatives of civil society and capital and even by former political opponents. This consultation led by Lula assumed as main commitments the defense of democracy against authoritarianism, the fight against hunger and the resumption of development with social inclusion of the population.

The Brasil da Esperança coalition faced a campaign marked by the intense use of the public machine and economic power by Jair Bolsonaro, as well as the dissemination of fake news, complaints of coercion by voters and numerous episodes of political violence involving bolsonaristas.de votes.

 

In the final days of the campaign, Lula participated in the debate on Globo, which he won for 51.5% of the undecided, while Bolsonaro had 33.7% of public preference, according to data from the AtlasIntel survey. The last act of the president-elect's campaign was on Avenida Paulista, in São Paulo, which brought together thousands of people and where Lula showed confidence in victory and reaffirmed his willingness to rebuild the country.

 

 

Record approval and political persecution

Lula ruled Brazil for two terms, from 2003 to 2010, at a time that was marked by economic prosperity, poverty reduction and expansion of social policies. In the period, the total number of registered workers rose from 28.6 million in 2002 to 44 million in 2010. In other words, Lula created, in eight years, more than 15 million formal jobs.

The purchasing power of workers has increased in their governments. During the governments of Lula and Dilma Rousseff (PT), between 2002 and 2016, the minimum wage had a real increase of 76%. In Lula's two terms alone, the real increase was 57.8%. In addition, 93.8% of the labor categories had an increase greater than inflation in 2010. With Lula and Dilma, 36 million Brazilians left extreme poverty and another 42 million ascended to the C class. All social segments they had income gains, but something unprecedented happened – the poorest earned more than the rich.

Between 2003 and 2012, the poorest 10% had real per capita income growth of 107%, while the richest had a 37% increase in accumulated income, according to a study by the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA). During the Lula and Dilma administrations, average income grew 38% above inflation. The income of the poorest 20% grew by 84%.

Lula ended his second term with a record in popularity. In December 2010, a survey by Ibope (currently Ipec), commissioned by the National Confederation of Industries (CNI), showed that 87% of respondents rated Lula's administration as “good or great”.

Former President Lula was the victim of one of the greatest political persecutions recorded in Brazilian history. In August 2016, Lula was denounced by the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) for passive corruption and money laundering in the Guarujá triplex case. The complaint signed by the then coordinator of the Lava Jato task force, Deltan Dallagnol, now an elected federal deputy, did not prove the accusations against Lula. Even so, the then federal judge Sergio Moro, current senator-elect, sentenced Lula in 2017 to 9 years in prison, a decision confirmed in record time by the Federal Regional Court of the 4th Region (TRF-4) that framed Lula in the Clean Record Law and withdrew it from the 2018 elections, which was won by Jair Bolsonaro.

Confirming his political interest in Lula's disqualification, Sergio Moro resigned from the judiciary at the end of 2018 to take over the Ministry of Justice and Public Security at the invitation of President-elect Jair Bolsonaro (PL). The following year, The Intercept Brasil website revealed private conversations between Lava Jato investigators and the former judge. The dialogues prove the collusion between the Public Ministry and Justice to persecute and condemn Lula. In April 2020, after nearly 16 months as Bolsonaro's minister, Moro announced his departure from the Bolsonaro government alleging the president's interference with the Federal Police. A little over two years later, Moro returned to ally himself with Bolsonaro by declaring support for the extremist against Lula in the second round of the election and even accompanied Bolsonaro in the debates against Lula.

Former President Lula was arrested on April 7, 2018, after spending two days at the ABC Metalworkers Union headquarters in São Bernardo do Campo. He was taken to the Federal Police Superintendence in Curitiba, built during his governments, where he was held for 580 days as a political prisoner. During the entire period in which he was imprisoned in the PF, Lula was accompanied by a crowd of supporters, who settled in the vicinity of the building, creating the Lula Livre Vigil. Documentary by journalist Joaquim de Carvalho for TV 247 portrays the Vigil's struggle to denounce injustice and for Lula's freedom.

Sergio Moro's sentence was overturned by the Federal Supreme Court (STF) in April 2021, which recognized the incompetence of the 13th Federal Court of Curitiba to judge the action. In the same year, the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) recognized the statute of limitations in the case. Defended by lawyers Cristiano Zanin Martins and Valeska Martins, Lula was acquitted in court in 26 cases brought against him by the lawfare machine that was the Lava Jato operation. Read a summary of Lula's judicial victories.

Triumphal return and challenges of a dismantled Brazil

After leaving prison in Curitiba, Lula began building an arc of alliances with political parties, social movements and unions, personalities from civil society, culture and market representatives to contest the 2022 election, after being withdrawn from the election. previous. He waved to the center, when he brought in the former governor of São Paulo Geraldo Alckmin as his candidate for vice, who left the PSDB for the PSB, and went to seek support in the broad spectrum of society.

As of January 1, 2023, Lula will take a country in much worse conditions than he found in 2002. There are more than 33 million people going hungry in the country, another 115 million with some degree of food insecurity, according to a study. from the Penssan Network.

Indebtedness reaches 79% of Brazilian families and default reached 29.6%, according to a study by the National Confederation of Commerce in Goods, Services and Tourism (CNC), released on September 5th. In the environmental area, Brazil is the target of international pressure for the increase in deforestation in the Amazon for agriculture and the invasion and exploitation of mining in indigenous lands.

Source Brasil247.com