Lula da Silva said he will be a candidate in 2026 if he is “100% health”

Lula da Silva said he will be a candidate in 2026 if he is “100% health”

February 14, 2025 – 20:50

The Brazilian president is 79 years old and was intervened surgically last December. “It’s early” to talk about the elections, he said.

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The president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 79 years, he held this Friday that will be presented to re -election in 2026 if it arrives with “100% health” and “the same energy” that has today. Anyway, he said it is “early” to talk about the next electoral process.

If I feel good and I think I can be a candidateI will be a candidate, but it is not my priority now, “the Brazilian president acknowledged during an interview with a local Belém radio, where he traveled to learn about the works in the face of the next climate summit (Cop30).

Last December, Lula da Silva was operated in a San Pablo hospital after feeling headaches. Two months before a fall had suffered. Since then, the president’s health was a topic of conversation about the political situation of Brazil.

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Lula does not rule out being a candidate in 2026.

Lula does not rule out being a candidate in 2026.

Lula He knows more than anyone and recognized him during this Friday’s interview. He said he is “aware” of his advanced age. That is why he admitted that he is not yet defined that he will go for his re -election. “I can’t lie to anyone and less to myself,” he gave.

Despite his health situation, he is still the main candidateaccording to the latest surveys disseminated by local media. Without Jair Bolsonaro as an option, for being judicially disabled to present, the right does not find a name that can absorb your votes.

Brazil will respond with “reciprocity” to the United States

Lula warned that if the new president of the United States, Donald Trump, Keep tariffs on steel imports, your country will respond with “reciprocity.”

“If they tax the Brazilian steel, We will react commercially or denounce before the World Trade Organization or tax the products that we import from them“Lula said.

“Trump can say what he wants, he is the president of the United States. But he can’t do what he wants,” The Brazilian president said.

Source: Ambito

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