Lula disse que dedicaria um quarto mandato à melhoria da educação e da saúde, e iria atrás dos chefes do crime organizado. Fotografia: Miguel Schincariol/AFP/Getty ImagesVisualizar imagem em tela cheiaLula disse que dedicaria um quarto mandato à melhoria da educação e da saúde, e iria atrás dos chefes do crime organizado.
Fotografia: Miguel Schincariol/AFP/Getty ImagesBrasilO Lula do Brasil lança histórica candidatura a um quarto mandato – mas o filho do preso Bolsonaro está em seu caminhoO presidente, de 80 anos, promete manter a extrema-direita longe do poder enquanto Flávio Bolsonaro diz a apoiadores que irá "lutar contra este sistema.
President, 80, vows to keep far-right from power as Flávio Bolsonaro tells supporters he will ‘fight this system’.
Brazil’s leftwing president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has launched his campaign for a historic fourth term and vowed that as long as he lived he would not allow the “shameless” right to return to power.
Addressing a sea of supporters in São Bernardo do Campo, the industrial city where his political career began nearly half a century ago, the 80-year-old politician reminded voters of the chaos and violence that unfolded during the 2018-22 presidency of his far-right predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, whose son Flávio Bolsonaro will face Lula in October’s presidential election.
Lula lembrou como centenas de milhares de cidadãos morreram durante um surto de Covid, pelo qual Jair Bolsonaro foi acusado de cometer erros com suas políticas anti-ciência.
A propriedade de armas de fogo aumentou à medida que as leis foram relaxadas, permitindo que grupos criminosos expandissem seus arsenais. "Eles distribuíram.
mais de um milhão de armas", disse Lula, prometendo dedicar um quarto mandato a melhorar a educação e a saúde, bem como desenvolver os depósitos de terras raras do Brasil, os segundos maiores do mundo após os da China.
Lula also said he would improve security by targeting the rich organised crime bosses who lived in luxury apartments. “It’s easy to kill a crook in a favela. But the guy running the show lives in a penthouse.
and we need to stop this,” Lula said. He also told his far-right rivals to “show some shame”.
Lula was speaking at the Vila Euclides football stadium, where his astonishing rise to the presidency began in 1979 when, as 33-year-old union leader, he spearheaded two historic strikes that helped end the military dictatorship.
Those strikes made Lula a household name and in 2002, after three failed attempts, he won a landslide victory to become his country’s first working-class president.
During Lula’s first two-terms, from 2002 until 2010, he was credited with fighting hunger, dramatically expanding social welfare programmes and access to higher education, and improving Brazil’s global standing, although his administration was blighted by corruption scandals.
His successor, Dilma Rousseff, became Brazil’s first female president but led the country into a severe economic recession before being controversially impeached in 2016.
Em 2018, Lula foi preso por suposta corrupção e passou 580 dias na prisão antes que o supremo tribunal anulasse sua condenação. A prisão de Lula permitiu que Bolsonaro vencesse a eleição daquele ano, inaugurando quatro anos de destruição ambiental e isolamento internacional.
In 2022 Lula won his third term, defeating Bolsonaro by a razor-thin margin and vowing to rescue the country from “one of the worst periods in Brazilian history”.
Bolsonaro was jailed in 2025 for 27 years for plotting that failed post-election power grab. Flávio Bolsonaro, a 45-year-old senator, launched his campaign on Sunday with an event on Rio’s Copacabana beach, previously the scene of huge rallies in support of his father.
Polls suggest Lula holds a slender advantage over Bolsonaro, with 43% of intended votes to his rival’s 40% in a run-off which will take place on 25 October if, as expected, no candidate secures 50% of the vote in the 4 October first round.
André Pagliarini, the author of a book about Lula called A People’s President and the Fight for Brazil’s Future, said the showdown would be “the single most important electoral contest this year in the world”.
Pagliarini disse que acredita que uma vitória de Bolsonaro seria um grande impulso para o bloco "reativo" pró-Trump que tem vencido eleições em toda a América Latina, desde a Argentina e o Chile até a Colômbia, onde o advogado de extrema-direita Abelardo de la Espriella recentemente assumiu o cargo.
During a visit to a jungle training camp in Panama on Friday, Trump’s defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, said Washington planned to use the military to “ruthlessly” pursue Latin American drug traffickers, “just like [they did with] Isis and al-Qaida” during the “war on terror”.
The idea, Hegseth said, was to “do bad things to bad people – because for too long, bad people did bad things to good people inside the United States of America and across Central and South America”.
There was anger at the US outside Lula’s campaign launch on Sunday, where some activists handed out stickers that read: “Fuck Trump.”.
Seixas Alves, a 33-year-old Lula supporter, said he worried the decision to classify Brazilian drug factions as terrorist groups could be used as a pretext for a US attack.
No Rio, Flávio Bolsonaro elogiou a decisão de Trump de mirar nos grupos de crime brasileiros e disse que ele era o único político capaz de "sentar com os EUA.
In Vila Euclides, Simone Tebet, a centrist Lula ally, urged voters to do everything they could to stop Brazil falling back into the hands of far-right politicians who wanted “to kill Brazilian democracy” and create “a country of hate”.
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Informação baseada em material público de The Guardian World, reescrito pela redação ULTRA NOTÍCIAS.
