Lula participated in the act for the 42 years of the PT in which the president of the force, Gleisi Hoffmann, announced the creation of Popular Committees of Struggle installed in 5,000 municipalities with the aim of mobilizing the militancy and offering a direct dialogue with the bases with which the party was born on February 10, 1980 in the city of São Paulo, five years before the end of the military dictatorship.
“The PT needs to govern again to prove that the working class knows how to govern well, that the people have employment and decent wages, so that wages rise above inflation, with strong state-owned companies, so that Brazil is respected in the world. and the people will once again be happy and proud of the country,” Lula said in his speech, broadcast on the PT networks.
The celebration throughout the day served to shore up Lula’s candidacy for the presidency, while he is favored in the polls by 45 percent against 23 percent of President Jair Bolsonaro.
Just as in 2002, when he won the presidential bid for the first time, this time Lula spoke a lot about “love”, in a message of pacification in the face of what he described as the “dissemination of hate”, citing the case of the refugee Congolese man beaten to death in Rio de Janeiro for claiming his salary at the beach bar where he worked.
Lula sent a message to the financial market and to those who suspect that his return will be to weave some kind of revenge after the criminalization of the PT in Operation Lava Jato, the removal of Dilma Rousseff from the presidency in 2016 and the 580 days she spent in prison in illegally for reasons armed by former judge Sérgio Moro.
“Our legacy is more important than any mistake we have made. We are alive despite the criminalization campaign of the PT, which is the most beloved party in the country. I was unfairly and illegally imprisoned for 580 days and there will always be love above all the hate,” Lula said.
He also lambasted the spread of hate online but did not cite his announced idea of creating legislation to regulate aggressive content on social networks.
In another section of the speech, the 75-year-old former president vindicated the figure of Rousseff, “unjustified by the elites.”
Lula said that although there are critics of the Rousseff government in the PT, all militants must defend the honor of the former president, whom he said was the victim of a “coup” that removed her.
Rousseff also said in a videotaped speech that Lula will be elected in October “because of a wave of indignation from the Brazilian people who rise up against hunger and Bolsonaro’s violent way of governing.”
The former president highlighted the creation of popular committees for the organization of the political base in 5,000 municipalities in the country with the aim of training militants and having direct contact with the population.
“We can say never again to the barbarism of this government, we have the chance to make history and rebuild the country with the election of Lula,” stressed the former president who governed from 2011 to 2016.
Rousseff also defended opening negotiations with other political forces to give a base of parliamentary and political support to an eventual Lula government, in reference to the negotiation to include the conservative ex-governor of São Paulo Geraldo Alckmin as a vice-presidential candidate.
On the other hand, Fernando Haddad, former presidential candidate of the PT in 2018 when Lula was banned from participating because he was in prison, stated that the ruling classes “to destroy the PT have destroyed Brazil, democracy and wages.”
Haddad stated that the current discourses in society of neo-Nazism and fascism began in the Lula years “by those who violently and without tolerance opposed social inclusion policies.”
As part of the festivities, the Argentine president, Alberto Fernández, also participated, sending a video congratulating the 42 years of the PT and highlighting the contact of the ideology of “inclusive development” with the Justicialist Party.
Fernández defended the social ascent experienced in the Brazil of Lula and in the Argentina governed by Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández.
In another section of the act, with recorded speeches, the coordinator of the Landless Movement (MST), Joao Pedro Stédile, intervened, who called on the population to help Lula become president again to rebuild the popular economy.
For Sergio Nobre, of the Central Unica de Trabajadores (CUT), the October elections “will define the future of Brazil for two or three decades.”
“It is necessary to rebuild everything destroyed by Bolsonaro,” he stressed.
Parallel to the act of the PT, Bolsonaro in his traditional Thursday Facebook live said that his broadcast had more followers than Lula’s, which is why he said he was suspicious of the polls that gave him as defeated by the former metallurgist.
Source: Ambito
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