Tag: Workers' Party (Brazil)

• Saturday, September 1st 2018 - 07:36 UTC

  Lula barred from running in October elections; Haddad will lead the PT slate

  

  Brazil's top electoral court, TSE, on early Saturday ended the political comeback plans of former president Lula da Silva, barring him from running in elections in October. Lula is in prison having been sentenced to twelve years for corruption last April.

• Saturday, August 18th 2018 - 07:38 UTC

  UN Human Rights Committee asks Lula be allowed to exercise political rights

  

  The United Nations Human Rights Committee, a panel of independent experts, on Friday said it had requested that the Brazilian government allow imprisoned former president Lula da Silva to exercise his political rights as a presidential candidate.

• Friday, August 17th 2018 - 08:43 UTC

  Lula's ban to run for president expected to be confirmed before August 31

  

  Brazil’s top electoral court must decide whether the country’s most popular politician can run in upcoming elections despite being jailed for corruption. The court is expected to declare former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ineligible in the coming weeks, ahead of the Oct. 7 vote, but that may not stop his Workers Party (PT) winning anyway.

• Thursday, August 16th 2018 - 10:56 UTC

  A defiant Workers Party registers Lula da Silva as presidential candidate

  

  The Workers' Party registered jailed former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as its candidate for president on Wednesday, attempting to muscle him into the race to lead Latin America's largest nation and forcing a showdown with Brazilian electoral authorities.

• Friday, August 10th 2018 - 06:11 UTC

  Brazilian round of presidential candidates debate takes off...without Lula da Silva

  

  Brazil is staging its first presidential election debate with eight of the crowded field locking horns but also one notable absentee – jailed frontrunner ex president Lula da Silva. Thirteen candidates have officially entered the election, which starts with a first round October 7 and is almost sure to go to a run-off two weeks later.

• Saturday, August 4th 2018 - 09:27 UTC

  Brazil's Workers Party have a Plan B to replace Lula: Fernando Haddad

  

  Former Sao Paulo mayor Fernando Haddad will be the Brazilian leftist Workers Party’s presidential candidate if jailed former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is barred from running in the October vote, party sources anticipated on Friday.

• Monday, April 30th 2018 - 08:53 UTC

  Two supporters of Lula da Silva injured with gunshots in Curitiba

  

  A man was seriously wounded early on Saturday when a gunman opened fire on a vigil in the southern Brazilian city of Curitiba, where former president Lula da Silva is serving time for corruption, his party said.

• Friday, April 27th 2018 - 12:24 UTC

  Brazil's Supreme Tribunal begins to address Lula's case on May 4th

  

  Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (STF) is to vote on a motion starting May 4 that could potentially release ex-president Lula da Silva from prison, the court said. Lula's defense team hopes to overturn a decision by Sergio Moro, a federal judge and head of a key corruption investigation that determined he had to begin serving a 12-year sentence for accepting bribes.

• Wednesday, April 25th 2018 - 08:15 UTC

  Brazil's Lula gives his party the green light to find a new presidential candidate

  

  Brazil's ex-president Lula, who is imprisoned for corruption, on Tuesday gave his Workers' Party (PT) the green light to find a new candidate for the October presidential election in which he remains the frontrunner. “I want you to feel totally free to take whatever decision you need because 2018 is an important year for the PT, for the left and for democracy,” wrote Lula da Silva in a letter to the party leadership.

• 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.