"I stay in Brazil to help" | Lula warns that no …

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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva disturbs the regime. In a report – the first in a year and twenty-nine days in prison – he reiterated his decision to remain under arrest when he paid the price of being firm in his beliefs. He warned that he would not accept blackmail. "If I propose to go live in the Bahamas, drinking coconut water every day and with all the necessary comfort, provided that I do not do politics, I say no. stay in this country to help people improve and lift their heads, to recover their rights.That's why a lot of people do not like me. "

The interview had the immediate effect of angering Jair Bolsonaro.

"Lula should not talk (…) I think it was a mistake of justice to give him the right," reacted retired captain, winner of the 2018 presidential election during which the leader of the PT was the victim of a blank ban. of justice, in particular by the electoral court. If that had not been the case, maybe today the president would be another one. Yesterday, during a brief meeting with journalists from the suburbs of Brasilia, Bolsonaro barely concealed his dissatisfaction with the remarks of someone who, despite his arrest, is the leader of the opposition . Attracting a mocking tone, he says that Lula is a "cachacero", a cachaça drinker.

In the report to the newspapers El País in Madrid and Folha de Sao Paulo, Lula recounted what happened in 2018, while he had 40% of the intentions to vote against the 20 years of Bolsonaro, a months before the elections. "We must remember that after being in prison, I gained 16 points in the polls, even without being able to talk to the media, when Minister Roberto Barroso (Electoral Tribunal) made this madness (he banned the candidacy) at that time, I started to feel the risk of not winning, because the transfer of votes to Fernando Haddad (PT candidate) is not automatic.We had an atypical election, the false news was something crazy. "He then sent the government's submission to Washington. "I've never seen a (Brazilian) president say" I love the United States "(…) I've never seen a president stand in front of the United States flag . " "How will the country move forward if there is no one to respect?" In front of the White House.

He recalled that during his two terms, between 2003 and 2011, he met the world's leading power, especially after the discovery of giant oil deposits on the coasts of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, in an area of ​​?? deep water known as salt "It was enough that we announce decubrimeintos deposits of pre-salt and that the Americans reactivate the fleet IV." And there my answer was to create the Council of defense (Unasur) against the interference from the United States. "

For Lula since January 1, when he took charge of the Bolons administration, Brazil is somehow acclaimed. "It can not be that the country is ruled by this gang of fools, the country does not deserve, the people do not deserve (…), we have to see his family (three influential children), the madness that 39 he has, his central enemy is the PT and later he is the vice president (General Hamilton Mourao ").

The interview, which lasted a little over two hours, took place at the Superintendence of the Federal Police in Curitiba, in a room guarded by armed agents. , apparently well ironed.

He was confident in the recovery of his party. "With the PT, we recognize that we have lost the elections, but we must remember its strength, which has not been destroyed.It is the only party that exists in this country as a party, the others are acronyms of electoral interest, we had to make mistakes. "

With the hoarse voice of always predicting an uncertain future for the new administration, something that helps explain the president's anger. "O Bolsonaro builds a strong political party or it will not last long, it will need a lot of articulation capability, people have patience but do not have all the patience of the world … The Brazil is ungoverned, which dictates the rules is the Minister of Economy Paulo Guedes, everything is focused on social security reform, and if approved, people will tease her. "

In another section, he reconstructed the process begun with his conviction in July 2017 by Judge Sergio Moro, Minister of Justice, and the fall of Dilma Rousseff. The "coup" was aimed at ending his arrest, Lula said. Lula did not spare his questions to former magistrate Moro for his "lies", which he also blamed the prosecutor of Curitiba, and badociated their execution with a major US maneuver as a true puppeteer in the Lava Jato case. "An investigative reporter could visit the United States to find out what was the interference of the US Department of Justice in this process, what was the interest of the Americans for Petrobras, they did not want to see any of them. have never accepted that I say that Petrobras was ours, that oil is ours, "he says.