According to the polls, Lula, if he confirms his candidacy, would win the October 2022 elections comfortably.
As soon as he received an award in Paris for his political career, former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Wednesday that he seeks to restore “Brazil’s international credibility” and asserted that 70% of Brazilians reject Jair Bolsonaro as president.
In one more stage in his European tour that has taken him to Germany, Belgium, France and, tomorrow, to Spain, Lula received the “Political Courage 2021” award from Politique Internationale magazine at the luxurious George V hotel in Paris.
After a private breakfast with a large audience made up of politicians, businessmen and intellectuals, Lula received an award that recognizes him for the whole of his career and for the hope that he embodies, and later he had a meeting with the media.
“Whether or not I am a candidate, I am working hard, hard, to defeat Bolsonaro, so that someone democrat wins the elections,” said Lula, who recovered his political rights this year after the Brazilian Supreme Court annulled the two convictions that weighed on. against him for corruption and for which he spent 580 days in prison.
While maintaining the suspense about his candidacy for the presidency in next year’s elections, Lula, 76, clarified that the goal of the many high-level meetings he is holding in Europe is not “to campaign.”
“I am not looking for electoral support because the people I meet with do not vote in Brazil (…) I am seeking to restore the credibility that Brazil already had,” insisted the leftist leader, who yesterday gave a lecture at the elite university Sciences Po.
Among the senior figures with whom he has met, the High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell; while he has a meeting scheduled at the Elysee today with the French president, the liberal Emmanuel Macron, and in Madrid with the president of the Spanish Government, the socialist Pedro Sánchez.
“I want to tell the leaders of Europe, the press, that Brazil is much better, it is democratic, generous, hard-working and it is not ignorance that is ruling Brazil, I tell them to continue to trust Brazil because the best of Brazil is the people Brazilian, “he added.
According to the polls, Lula, if he confirms his candidacy, would win the October 2022 elections comfortably, with at least 45% of the support, ahead of Bolsonaro, with about 25%.
“More than 70% of the population no longer love Bolsonoaro and that majority, which is civilized and democratic, will elect someone who lives with the institutions, who wants to strengthen them and respect the national Congress and the judiciary, that is harmony. that the country needs to develop ”, he concluded. (I)
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