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Lula 'intimately' wants Dilma removed from office, says O Estado de Sao Paulo

The column, “Lula in the opposition” suggests that the former president is considering the possibility letting go the government and Dilma Rousseff

Former Brazilian president Lula da Silva, “intimately celebrates” a possible political action that would remove president Dilma Rousseff from the Planalto Palace, according to one of the country's most respected and serious dailies, O Estado de Sao Paulo.

 The column published in the newspaper under the heading of “Lula in the opposition” suggests that the former president and head of the ruling Workers Party (PT), is considering the possibility letting go the government and leaving the president and his former cabinet chief and Energy minister to fight it out on her own.

According to the column, Lula da Silva would then adopt the role he most cherishes, that of the savior of the motherland in an ongoing battle against the enemies of the people. Enemies who would be blamed by Lula da Silva for the 'political coup' against Dilma Rousseff, and which he in intimacy, celebrates”.

For the O Estado de Sao Paulo editorialist the hypothesis was reinforced during Lula da Silva's recent trip to Paraguay (and later to Argentina), in which he attacked and blamed current finance and economy ministers from Dilma's cabinet.

Standing next to Paraguayan president Horacio Cartes, who had no idea of what was going on with his host, Lula da Silva said that the lack of funds in the Brazilian treasury and budget, “was a mere excuse from inside the government” of Dilma Rousseff.

“It's very hard to find someone in the Finance ministry or the Treasury willing to help those coming from downstairs”, said the former president. “The ears of Joaquim Levy exploded red on fire”, said the editorial.

For Lula da Silva, nowadays Dilma Rousseff, his former ally “does not look after the Brazilian poor, to whom he, and only him have delivered protection”.

“Looking after the poor is the solution. I think we are at the right moment to again believe in the poor people and their right to ascend”. To the more intimate the former union leader is open and frank ”It's time to rescue the Workers Party (PT)“, which according to O Estado de Sao Paulo really means ”time to save himself“.

”Lula is anxious, every day with less discretion, for the moment to officially join the opposition looking to the 2018 elections. But for that it is necessary to have Dilma removed. For different reasons, Lula longs for the same as the immense majority of the Brazilian people”, concludes the O Estado de Sao Paulo editorial.