Rio de Janeiro
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, confined to his apartment in the suburbs of São Paulo in these times of the coronavirus pandemic and, at 75, almost retired from political life, was taken by surprise Monday afternoon by this twist judicial.
No one expected, not even the old lion who has dominated Brazilian political life for nearly half a century, the decision of Supreme Court justice Edson Fachin.
This judge who, in the past, had never given a gift to the icon of the Latin American left, overturned in a single decision his sentences to more than twenty years in prison for corruption.
His judgment restores above all Lula's political rights and offers him the possibility of running for a third term for the presidency in 2022, after having led the country from 2003 to 2011. Beyond the legal twists and turns, the cards are reshuffled a little more eighteen-month presidential election.
The return of the charismatic leader of the left will accentuate
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