Lula: the Political Biography of a Beard and a Hat
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva asks for a new opportunity to govern, the fourth, after having left his mark in the history of modern Brazil. He is 80 years old and does not renounce vitality. He shows himself in the gym, jumps in the acts and lets the cenisient hair move in the swing. Lula’s political life could be told through his beard. But before his face was known he had to go a long way, from the poverty of Pernambuco, where the first shoes were…
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 80 years old, is running for the fourth presidential term in Brazil, after promising in 2022 that he will no longer attempt to obtain a new term. Sunday, October 4, his name will appear for the seventh time on the ballot, in a race dominated by the confrontation with Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro. The latest polls show a tight competition, with different results depending on the instituti…
Brazil will live a tense election day next Sunday, where Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro aspire to have a presidential term of four years. Polls show advantage of the leftist, but a very uncertain panorama for the ballotage. Lula presented himself looking for a fourth period in Brasilia with 80 years of age ... Continue reading "Lula da Silva, the icon of the Latin American left that would end a fourth government with 85 years"
"We cannot stop the Earth from turning and the years to pass", philosopher of his raucous voice Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in one of the videos in which he staged his physical exercises on social networks. After 12 years accumulated in power, the man of the people who became a stateman was running for a fourth and final term. The first round of the presidential election is scheduled for Sunday. He survived the defeats, survived the prison - 580 …
Lula has dominated Brazil's politics for decades. Now the 80-year-old wants to become president for the fourth time, on Sunday is the first ballot. Lula considers himself irreplaceable – and thereby puts his political legacy at risk.
Of humble origin, Lula da Silva went from a metal worker and trade union leader to President of Brazil. Founder of the Workers' Party, he ruled between 2003 and 2010, faced judicial convictions and returned to power in 2023. At 80 years, he sought to win a fourth presidential term.
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