President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said this Tuesday that he is willing to run for re-election in the next elections in Brazil to prevent a “troglodyte” from returning to power.
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In a clear reference to the Government of Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022), Lula pointed out that he will not allow the country to be “condemned by a denier” again.
“If it were necessary to be a candidate to prevent the troglodytes who governed this country from governing again, (…) I could be a candidate”said the president during an interview with the Globo group’s CBN station.
Lula, however, stressed that a new candidacy to assume the head of state is not among his priority objectives.due to age, since he would be in the campaign at 80 years old and he has to think about his state of health by then.
“We must be responsible with Brazil, but I am not going to allow Brazil to be governed by a fascist again,” he insisted.
The 78-year-old former union veteran took office for his third four-year term in January 2023. after obtaining a narrow victory against Bolsonaro (2019-2022). If he runs for re-election in October 2026, Lula will be turning 81 years old.
If it were necessary to be a candidate to prevent the troglodytes who ruled this country from ruling again, you can be sure that 80 years will turn into 40
“If it were necessary to be a candidate to prevent the troglodytes who ruled this country from ruling again, you can be sure that 80 years will become 40 and I will be able to be a candidate,” he stated.
“But it is not the first hypothesis,” he added. “There are many good people for candidates”
Lula has always taken a firm position against Bolsonaro’s management, a nostalgic for the military dictatorship (1964-1985), defender of the exploitation of the natural resources of the Amazon, and one of the few denialist leaders of the covid-19 pandemic, which left some 700,000 dead in Brazil.
Bolsonaro was disqualified by the Superior Electoral Court from holding popularly elected positions until 2030 for misinforming about the voting system.
However, he remains very active in politics at the head of the Liberal Party, with wide representation in the lower house and the Senate.
The former president stars in events throughout the country to support candidates for the municipal elections next Octoberin which he usually compares his disqualification with that of opponents in Venezuela or Nicaragua.
In addition, he is the target of several investigations for the alleged falsification of Covid-19 vaccine certificates and for alleged participation in an attempted coup d’état to prevent Lula from assuming the mandate, among others.
Lula criticizes president of the Central Bank
The president of Brazil also strongly criticized this Tuesday the head of the Central Bank, Roberto Campos Neto, for not lowering rates in the country and pointed out that the manager lacks autonomy and works to “harm” the country.
“We only have one thing that is wrong in Brazil at the moment, it is the behavior of the Central Bank, That is something that is wrong, Lula pointed out, during the radio interview with the CBN station, on the Globo network.
According to the Brazilian president, the president of the issuing organization “does not demonstrate any capacity for autonomy”, “has a political side” and “works much more to harm the country than to help”, because there is no explanation for the interest rate annual base is so high.
Lula’s statements came one day before the issuing body defines the new basic interest rate for the country, which according to market experts will remain at 10.50% annually, thus stopping the consecutive cuts that it had been carrying out since August of last year.
In fact, last March, when it ordered a cut of 0.25 points, the Central Bank began to slow down the rate of decrease in the cost of money, since it had been promoting cuts of half a point, to help stop inflation, which was stands at 3.9% year-on-year.
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