Tag: Lula da Silva

• Friday, April 20th 2018 - 09:13 UTC

  Brazilian ex Justice and only black member of the high court, considers running for president

  

  Members of the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) celebrated on Thursday their newest member, potential presidential candidate and former Supreme Court Justice Joaquim Barbosa, whose debut in a national poll stoked hopes for his potential.

• Thursday, April 19th 2018 - 08:52 UTC

  Lula's party preparing Plan B: a united left front for October elections

  

  The most likely political heir to jailed former President Lula da Silva insists the leftist leader is still the Workers Party’s candidate for the October elections, but he is preparing to step into the role. Fernando Haddad told the Brazilian media that he was talking with other left-wing parties about forging a united leftist front for the elections if Lula is barred from running by a corruption conviction.

• Thursday, April 19th 2018 - 08:45 UTC

  Brazilian court turns down Lula da Silva's latest appeal

  

  A Brazilian court on Wednesday turned down ex-president Lula da Silva's latest appeal against his 12-year sentence for corruption, seemingly putting his bid for a political comeback even farther out of reach. The court in Porto Alegre tweeted that it had unanimously turned down the appeal, which was of a technical nature and, even if successful, would not have changed Lula's guilty verdict.

• Tuesday, April 17th 2018 - 08:31 UTC

  Homeless activists occupy seaside apartment at the heart of Lula da Silva's imprisonment

  

  A group of homelessness activists briefly occupied on Monday the seaside apartment at the heart of the corruption case that saw ex-president Lula da Silva imprisoned earlier this month. About 30 members of the Homeless Workers' Movement and other leftist activists got into the triplex apartment in Guaruja, near Sao Paulo, hanging placards from the balcony in support of Lula.

• Monday, April 16th 2018 - 09:05 UTC

  Brazilian electorate cautious, a week after the imprisonment of Lula da Silva

  

  Brazilian voters are abandoning jailed former President Lula da Silva as his chances of running in October fade, but they are not transferring their support en masse to other leftist candidates, a Datafolha poll showed on Sunday. Without Lula in the running, support for far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro has slipped and is now virtually tied with environmentalist Marina Silva in a presidential race thrown wide open, the survey said.

• Saturday, April 14th 2018 - 11:10 UTC

  Brazilian Supreme Tribunal: of the eleven Justices, seven were named by Lula and Rousseff

  

  The Brazilian Supreme Federal Tribunal acts primarily as the Constitutional Court of the country, and its rulings cannot be appealed. The court is made up of eleven members, Justices, addressed to as Ministers, and they are appointed by the president and must be approved by the Senate.

• Thursday, April 12th 2018 - 09:08 UTC

  Sixty Brazilian members of Congress added Lula to their names

  

  More than 60 Brazilian members of congress from the opposition Worker's Party have formally changed their names. They have added the name 'Lula', after Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was jailed last weekend.

• Wednesday, April 11th 2018 - 08:47 UTC

  Brazil Supreme Court delays considering change to a law that could release jailed Lula

  

  A Justice on Brazil's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a delay until next week of a debate on changing a law that could, if passed, lead to the imminent release of recently jailed ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

• Monday, April 9th 2018 - 08:42 UTC

  Lula's defense hopes for an early retrieve if Supreme Court changes a key law

  

  Brazil's ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who began a 12-year jail sentence on Saturday in Curitiba, could win an early reprieve if the country's top court decides to change a key law. Marco Aurelio Mello, a judge at the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), said he would petition the divided court next Wednesday to revisit the current law on incarceration during appeals.

• Sunday, April 8th 2018 - 06:43 UTC

  Lula in prison in Curitiba. Fiery-emotional speech to supporters before turning in

  

  Brazil's leftist icon Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva turned himself in Saturday to start a 12-year sentence for corruption after a chaotic attempt by supporters to stop him from surrendering. Surrounded by bodyguards, Lula had to push through a seething throng of supporters to get into a police vehicle outside the metalworkers' union building in Sao Bernardo do Campo, where he had been holed up for two days and nights.