Tue Mar 9, 2021, 03:00 PM
sandensea (16,678 posts)
Brazil justice annuls Lula da Silva's sentences, enabling 2022 run
A day after graft convictions of Brazil's leftist former President Luiz Inácio 'Lula' da Silva were overturned, he may see the evidence against him thrown out by the Supreme Court on Tuesday, clearing his name ahead of a possible 2022 presidential run.
The Supreme Court said Justice Gilmar Mendes had called a Tuesday vote on an appeal by Lula's legal team alleging that Sérgio Moro, the former judge who sentenced him, was not impartial in overseeing investigations of the former president. Messages published in 2019 by The Intercept Brasil show Moro colluding with prosecutors against Lula for political reasons; he was later named Justice Minister in the Bolsonaro regime. If the top court rules in Lula's favor, it would cap a stunning reversal of fortunes for one of Brazil's most popular and divisive figures, whose political hopes appeared decimated by the corruption cases against him in recent years. If he runs, the leftist firebrand, 75, would immediately be the leading rival next year against far-right President Jair Bolsonaro - whose popularity has suffered in the face of a raging pandemic, rising inflation and stretched public finances. At: https://news.yahoo.com/lula-2022-hopes-brighten-brazils-162148124.html
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Response to sandensea (Original post)
Tue Mar 9, 2021, 03:08 PM
jorgevlorgan (5,654 posts)
1. It would be great if there wasn't only one viable candidate standing between democracy
And authoritarian, right wing insanity. Although this is great news!
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Response to jorgevlorgan (Reply #1)
Tue Mar 9, 2021, 03:30 PM
sandensea (16,678 posts)
2. Well said.
Although that's in fact how South American politics usually work:
They often have myriad small parties running - but most of the oxygen will typically be sucked up by one large party/coalition on the right, and another one on the left. The one on the right usually appeals mostly to white/middle-class voters (plus some in the working class hoping to 'belong'), and often sounds like Trump. And the one on the left will often sound like Bernie. |