The former president, favorite in the polls for next year’s elections, is in a media rally as part of the preparation to be proclaimed a candidate by the Workers’ Party to confront Bolsonaro and the former Bolsonarista minister Sergio Moro, the former judge who him convicted and sent to jail in 2018 in a ruling later reversed by the Supreme Court.
“They arrested me so that I would not win the elections. They wanted an agreement with me so that I could accept a house arrest and not continue in politics but I have rejected it, dignity is not bought in a supermarket, it is built throughout life”, Lula said.
In this context, Lula affirmed that “it would be wonderful” for Moro to be a presidential candidate because “he will no longer have the protection” that he had as a judge to debate.
“It will be shown that he is a liar, that all he did was lie,” Lula said about the former magistrate who convicted him of corruption in Operation Lava Jato, but then all those cases were annulled for having violated the rule of law and being tainted by political bias.
The former president admitted that he has a “good relationship” with former São Paulo governor Geraldo Alckmin, of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party and that he is considered a possible vice in a formula of “national unity” of the left plus the conservatives.
“The important thing is to make a good agreement that allows us to win the elections,” Lula said without confirming Alckmin as his running mate.
The PT leader is in a series of articulations that included a virtual meeting with evangelical leaders over the weekend, especially considering that the so-called evangelical Christian establishment is aligned with Bolsonaro and was key in the 2018 election.
Lula said that Bolsonaro treats the evangelists as “cattle” and that he reflected a lot in prison on how to speak again with this segment of the population.
In 2018, part of the far-right’s “fake news” machine gun was linking sex education to perversion in schools and targeting the PT candidate, Fernando Haddad.
The image of a bottle with a penis-shaped pacifier was one of the most emblematic cases of the campaign against the PT among evangelicals.
In this framework, Lula said that the political party should have a communication space dedicated to leftist or progressive evangelists to confront “the narrative” of Bolsonaro.
“In 2018 we had a campaign against ´fake news´, with lies, something we were not used to. But we learned, in the polls we are seeing that Bolsonaro is not winning me among the evangelical public. And that he is in campaign for reelection and I have not started yet, “he explained.
Lula appeared with the president of the PT, Gleisi Hoffmann, and the former governor of Rio de Janeiro Benedita da Silva, an evangelical reference among the black and favela population.
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