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Lula foi considerado um dos políticos mais populares da história do Brasil e, enquanto presidente, foi um dos mais populares do mundo. Foi sucedido no cargo pela chefe da Casa Civil no seu governo, Dilma Rousseff, eleita em 2010 e reeleita em 2014.
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazilian Portuguese: [luˈiz iˈnasju ˈlulɐ dɐ ˈsiwvɐ] ⓘ; born Luiz Inácio da Silva; 27 October 1945), also known as Lula da Silva or simply Lula, is a Brazilian politician who is the 39th and current president of Brazil since 2023.
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (born October 27, 1945, Garanhuns, Brazil) Brazilian politician who served as president of Brazil (2003–11; 2023– ).
Born in Pernambuco state to sharecropping parents, Luiz Inácio da Silva (“Lula” was a nickname that he later added to his legal name) worked as a shoe-shine boy, street vendor, and factory worker to help supplement the family income. During the recession that followed the military coup of 1964 in Brazil, he found employment with the Villares Metalworks in São Bernardo do Campo, an industrial suburb of São Paulo. At Villares he joined the Metalworkers’ Union, and in 1972 he left the factory to work for the union full-time, heading its legal section until 1975 when he was elected union president. That post brought him national attention as he launched a movement for wage increases in opposition to the military regime’s economic policy. The campaign was highlighted by a series of strikes from 1978 to 1980 and culminated in Lula’s arrest and indictment for violations of the National Security Law. Although he was convicted and sentenced to a prison term of three and a half years, the Military Supreme Court released him the following year.
A founding member of the Workers’ Party (Portuguese: Partido dos Trabalhadores), Lula first ran for political office as his party’s candidate for governor of the state of São Paulo in 1982, finishing fourth. He later led national efforts in favour of direct elections for president, organizing mass demonstrations in state capitals in 1983 and 1984. Buoyed by popularity and charisma, Lula was elected to the national Chamber of Deputies in 1986 as a federal deputy from São Paulo. Lula was the Workers’ Party’s presidential candidate in 1989, but he lost to Fernando Collor de Mello. Lula continued as his party’s presidential candidate in the elections of 1994 and 1998, both times finishing second to Fernando Henrique Cardoso. In the 2002 presidential election he adopted a more pragmatic platform; although he remained committed to encouraging grassroots participation in the political process, he also courted business leaders and promised to work with the International Monetary Fund to meet fiscal targets. Lula decisively defeated José Serra, the government-backed candidate, by winning 61.5 percent of the vote.
After taking office in January 2003, Lula sought to improve the economy, enact social reforms, and end government corruption. In 2006, as the end of his first term approached, the economy was growing, and Brazil’s poverty rate had fallen significantly. However, many Brazilians felt that Lula had not done enough to improve the quality of public education or to reduce crime. Moreover, Lula’s vow to fight government corruption had come into question in 2005, when members of his party were accused of bribery and illegal campaign financing. The president was not implicated, but the scandal hurt his popularity. In the first round of the 2006 presidential election, Lula failed to capture enough votes to win outright. Nevertheless, in the second round he easily defeated his opponent, Geraldo Alckmin of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party.
Both the Brazilian economy and Lula’s popularity continued to grow during his second term, and new oil discoveries in the Santos basin held great promise for the country’s future, which looked even brighter when Rio de Janeiro was chosen to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Constitutionally barred from running for a third consecutive term, Lula handpicked his chief of staff, Dilma Rousseff, as his successor. Promising to extend Lula’s policies, Rousseff, who had been the point person for the administration’s landmark Growth Acceleration Program, advanced from the first round of elections to a runoff against Serra, whom she defeated convincingly to be elected Brazil’s first woman president.
Rousseff was reelected in 2014, but early in her second term a scandal exploded that involved millions of dollars in alleged kickbacks by prominent Brazilian corporations to officials of Petrobras, the country’s huge majority-state-owned oil company, and of the Workers’ Party. Dozens of high-level businesspeople and politicians were indicted as part of the widespread investigation into the scandal. In August 2015 the list of those arrested expanded to include José Dirceu, who had served as chief of staff for Lula from 2003 to 2005.
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On March 4, 2016, Lula’s home was raided by the police, who then brought in the former president himself for some three hours of questioning before releasing him. Roughly a week later he was formally charged with money laundering for allegedly hiding his ownership of a seaside luxury apartment that was said to have come into his possession as a result of his ties to the OAS construction firm. Lula, who denied owning the apartment, was then named chief of staff by Rousseff, ostensibly to use his considerable clout and political acumen to help her administration survive the scandal and a growing economic crisis. Lula’s appointment was blocked, however, by a federal judge who also released a wiretapped phone conversation between Rousseff and Lula, which, it was argued, indicated that Rousseff had made the appointment to protect Lula from prosecution. As a cabinet member, the chief of staff was legally exempt from federal prosecution and could be tried only in the Supreme Court.
Against this backdrop, calls for Rousseff’s impeachment swelled, leading to her suspension from office in May and an impeachment trial in August in which she was convicted of having used state bank funds to cover up a budget deficit in the run-up to her reelection in 2014. She was removed from office on August 31.
On September 20 the judge overseeing the investigation into the Petrobras scandal formally accepted the charges of corruption and money laundering against Lula, and he ordered the former president, his wife (Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva), and six others to stand trial. Lula once again protested his innocence, arguing that the charges were politically motivated and intended to prevent him from running for president in 2018. By 2017 Lula faced corruption charges in five separate cases related to the Petrobras scandal. In early February 2017 his wife died, having suffered a stroke in January. The trial in which she would have been a codefendant—involving the luxury apartment and OAS—began in May. Characterized as Brazil’s “trial of the century,” it kicked off with Lula giving a five-hour deposition to Judge Sérgio Moro, the towering figure who had led the “Operation Car Wash” probe into the scandal. In July Lula was found guilty of corruption and money laundering. He was sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison but remained free pending appeal.
Lula’s challenge was the most serious faced by incumbent Bolsonaro, who had allowed increased commercial destruction of the Amazon Rainforest and had taken a lax approach to the COVID-19 global pandemic, contributing to Brazil’s experiencing the world’s second highest total of COVID-19-related deaths. In the run-up to the election, Bolsonaro claimed, without proof, that fraud was rampant in Brazil’s electronic voting system and suggested that he might not abide by the results of the election. Lula was the consistent leader in preelection preference polling, but the Brazilian electorate was deeply and passionately polarized. On October 2, in the first round of voting, Lula won a narrow victory over Bolsonaro, claiming 48.4 percent of the vote, compared with 43.2 percent for Bolsonaro (the remainder was divided among nine other candidates). Because neither candidate reached the 50 percent-plus threshold necessary to preclude a second round of voting, they faced each other in a runoff on October 30. Again the result was extremely close, but again Lula was the victor, taking nearly 51 percent of the vote, compared with just over 49 percent for Bolsonaro, who became the first Brazilian incumbent president in more than three decades to fail to be reelected.
Supporters of Bolsonaro responded to Lula’s victory by claiming that the election had been illegitimate, taking to the streets in protest, and urging the military to intercede. Although Bolsonaro indicated that he would cooperate in the transition of power to Lula, he never formally conceded, and he outraged the president-elect by making a request to the military to investigate the election. The report issued from that investigation found no evidence of fraud, but it did not rule out the possibility that tampering with votes could have occurred, which some of Bolsonaro’s supporters interpreted as vindication of their claim that the election was illegitimate. On January 8, 2023, roughly a week after Lula’s inauguration as president, thousands of Bolsonaro’s supporters stormed the buildings that house Brazil’s Congress and Supreme Court, as well as the presidential palace, sowing chaos and destruction in scenes that mirrored those in the January 6 U.S. Capitol attack.
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, mais conhecido como Lula, é um ex-metalúrgico, ex-sindicalista e político brasileiro, filiado ao Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT). É o 39.º presidente do Brasil desde 2023, além de ter sido o 35.º presidente da República entre 2003 e 2011.
