Lula said he wants to be a candidate for President of Brazil / Argentina News

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva He said this Saturday in Madrid that he wants to be a candidate for President of Brazil again, ahead of the October elections next year, but he specified that he will define it “between February and March because there is much to decide.”

The 76-year-old leader of the Workers’ Party (PT), participated in an act of the Spanish left-wing party We can in the framework of a tour of Germany, Belgium and France and at a time when the polls show them as the favorite to win the elections against the current president Jair Bolsonaro.

“To return doing less, it is better not to return,” said the former president during a ceremony held at Casa de América and accompanied by the Minister of Social Rights and Agenda 2030 and Secretary General of Podemos, Ione Belarra, and the former Vice President of the Government Pablo Iglesias .

Lula said he wants to be a candidate for President of Brazil

Lula recovered all his political rights and now he will be able to face Bolsonaro, in next year’s elections, after almost two years of disqualification for convictions related to the Lava Jato corruption scheme, later revoked after decreeing that justice was partial.

“I cannot do less than what I have done, that is the challenge I have,” declared the PT leader before warning that “the situation in Brazil is worse than in 2003”, the year in which he assumed power. in the beginning of almost a decade of mandate.

Lula thanked all the “affection” received during his disqualification as a fundamental value when considering your possible candidacy.

“What they have done for me and for the cause has been something so noble that it made me want to be a candidate again. I am convinced that it is possible to recover Brazil,” he said in statements reproduced by the Europa Press agency.

Regarding the process that led him to be imprisoned for 580 days, he pointed out that since they had “nothing” to attack him, they constructed, through the media, the idea of ​​a “gang of corruption” and then sentenced him without “evidence” and pointed out that if It was delivered so that there would not be a photo of him as a “corrupt fugitive.”

“And one day they released me, I went home without an ankle brace, with my head up,” he concluded.

The PT leader met on Friday in Spain with the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, after passing through Germany, where he spoke with the probable future Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Belgium and France, where he was received by President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace.