Tag: Lula da Silva

• Monday, September 12th 2022 - 10:15 UTC

  Bolsonaro not allowed to use Independence Day celebrations for political gain

  

  Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE) Justice Benedito Goncalves partially granted a petition from former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva requesting incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro be banned from using images of the September 7 celebrations for his own political campaign ahead of next month's elections.

• Friday, September 9th 2022 - 17:09 UTC

  Lula likens Bolsonaro's Independence Day ceremony to the Ku Kux Klan

  

  Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva likened the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro's Independence Day parade (Sept. 7) to a Ku Klux Klan show in which the current head of state just “lacked the hood.”

• Friday, September 2nd 2022 - 10:29 UTC

  Foreign leaders condemn attack against Argentine VP

  

  Foreign leaders have expressed their support to Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner who survived an assassination attempt late Thursday after the gun pointed at her head failed to fire.

• Monday, August 29th 2022 - 10:48 UTC

  Presidential debate in Brazil almost ends up in a fistfight

  

  Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva and the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro took center stage Sunday in a TV presidential debate featuring all candidates due to participate in the upcoming October 2 elections.

• Friday, August 26th 2022 - 17:37 UTC

  Lula calls Bolsonaro the court's jester

  

  Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva Thursday admitted in a TV interview that there were cases of corruption during his consecutive terms as President of Brazil (2003-2010).

• Thursday, August 25th 2022 - 10:38 UTC

  Brazilian presidential election: opinion polls show Bolsonaro closing in on Lula, but still not enough

  

  The poll from Instituto Parana Pesquisa was released 24 August and compared to the previous one from August second, the difference which stood at 5,5 percentage points has now fallen to 4,7 percentage points.

• Tuesday, August 23rd 2022 - 17:39 UTC

  Bolsonaro will respect the elections' outcome provided they are clean

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said Monday evening in a TV interview that he will accept the election's outcome provided they are clear, and warned he was being pressured into becoming a dictator.

• Wednesday, August 17th 2022 - 21:50 UTC

  Lula to create Ministry of SMEs, if elected

  

  Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) Wednesday vowed to create a Ministry for Small and Medium Enterprises if he wins the October elections and returns to the Planalto Palace.

• Wednesday, August 17th 2022 - 09:27 UTC

  Brazilian presidential campaign takes off: Lula and Fernando Cardoso have joined forces to oust Bolsonaro

  

  The most polarized Brazilian presidential campaign in recent years was officially launched on Tuesday with ex-president Lula da Silva leading comfortably incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in opinion polls. But opinion polls in Brazil have not been very precise in recent elections and the Brazilian government still has too many resources at hand.

• Wednesday, August 17th 2022 - 09:19 UTC

  Tense moments mark ceremony at Brazil's TSE

  

  Brazilian former Presidents Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva (PT), Dilma Rousseff (PT), Michel Temer (MDB), and José Sarney (MDB) Tuesday sat opposite the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and the members of the Supreme Federal Court as Alexandre De Moraes was sworn in Tuesday as the Superior Electoral Court's new Chief Justice.