Until just a few months ago, Lula – full name Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – seemed to have reached the melancholy twilight of a mythical political career. He argued Lula’s involvement in the 2022 vote threaten returning Bolsonaro to office by creating an election “in which Bolsonaro calls Lula a crook, and Lula calls Bolsonaro a murderer”. And in 2002, after Lula was finally elected on his fourth attempt, an overjoyed Dona Zica travelled to Brasília to witness his inauguration. Nearly two decades later, Dona Zica hoped history might repeat itself but warned Bolsonaro’s defeat was not assured. Today he’s ahead – but politics is constantly changing,” Dona Zica said.

Source: The Guardian July 30, 2021 13:52 UTC