Lula da Silva: "If Cristina is president, the Argentine people will be happier"

The former president of

Brasil

Luiz Inácio

Lula da Silva,

He offered his support for the next

the elections

to the senator

Cristina Kirchner,

during his first interview with the prison press

Curitiba,

where he is serving a sentence for corruption and money laundering.

"All I want is that Argentina finds the way to democracy. I have lived with Kirchner and Cristina and I think it has been a huge good for the Argentine people" , he said about the years of coincidence between their mandates.

"Of course, they fed the hatred of the Argentine elite, of those who supported [Domingo] Cavallo when he was finance minister and they supported everything the United States wanted to do, "added Lula.

"Cristina and Néstor Kirchner have won the trust of the people of Argentina and allowed them to produce, they have a strong economy, hunger has dropped, unemployment has dropped," said Lula vehemently in front of the microphones.

"With neoliberalism, nothing is achieved anywhere in the world, and all those who apply the tax adjustment recipe get nothing," he said, in a criticism. which is superimposed on the government.

Cristina Kirchner.

"Want to reduce the public debt in Brazil, increase economic growth, increase GDP, increase the production of bread, rice, meat and sausages.If GDP increases, the public debt decreases," he added.

And he concluded: "I inflate so that Cristina is the candidate of the Argentine people and wins the elections, I think that if the people win, he will be happier".

The interview took place at the Directorate of Federal Police in Curitiba. As
informed LA NACION, Lula repeated his innocence several times; In July 2017, as part of the Lava Jato operation, Judge Sergio Moro, currently Minister of Justice and Public Security of Bolsonaro, declared him guilty of having received from the company OAS building a triplex department in Guarujá, a city of São Paulo. in-kind bribery in exchange for the guarantee of the company's contracts with the state oil company Petrobras during its term of office (2003-2010).