They assure that Lula da Silva does not have money to pay the deposit and that his supporters are already organizing a fundraiser

After seeing his sentence reduced by justice, the former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, jailed for a year, he does not have the resources to pay bail which would allow him to partially recover his freedom within a period of about six months.

To be able to go on a diet "Semi-open" incarceration in which the prisoner is free during the day and returns to prison at night, Lula will have to pay 3 million reals (about 760,000 dollars), amount that he can not afford, according to their relatives.

"Lula's lawyers and friends are already thinking about organizing a" vaquita "(voluntary recovery) to pay a fine of 3 million rales from the Superior Court of Justice", informed the newspaper today Folha of San Pablo.

The four members of a Superior Court of Justice Chamber yesterday approved that the conviction of the politician is reduced from 12 years and a month, dictated in the original sentence, to 8 years and 10 months.

At the same time, They ratified the sentences for corruption and money laundering pronounced in 2017 by the former judge Sergio Moro and ratified in 2018 by the Federal Regional Court 4, Appeals Chamber.

Since his imprisonment, Lula has been in a 15-square-meter special cell, adapted to his former president's position, in a federal police building in Curitiba, a town in the south of the country where the court in charge of the case. Lava Jato operation against corruption.

The former president was unhappy with the resolution of the Superior Court of Justice. "The problem is not to reduce the sentence, the sentence must be null (…) until now, I was not entitled to a fair trial," said Lula to a Workers Party co – religionist last night at the Police Directorate, as it happened today.

"The struggle must continue, in the same way that I was judged politically, I will be released politically by the resistance of the people," said the former leader when he received in his cell his colleague Emídio de Souza.

For his part, the lawyer of the politician, Cristiano Zanin, announced that he would appeal the court decision. "We respect the position presented today by the Ministers of the Superior Court, but we disagree to understand that the only possible decision is the acquittal of former President Lula because". he did not commit any crime, "Zanin said.