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Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva plans to get married as soon as he regains his freedom, economist Carlos Bresser-Pereira said after visiting the Superintendency of the Federal Police in Curitiba, where he has been arrested since last April. Lula is "pbadionate and his first project is to get married when he gets out of prison," said Bresser-Pereira, Fernando Henrique Cardoso's government minister.

At age 73, the incarcerated leader is "in optimal physical and mental condition (and) his greatest demand is to recognize innocence," according to the two convictions at the Curitiba Federal Court of First Instance, which until last year. He headed the judge and current Minister of Justice, Sergio Moro, Lava Jato's mentor. Last month, a Brazilian court of appeal reduced one of the sentences handed down from 12 to 8 years, which would allow it to recover a partial freedom before the end of the year.

Bresser-Pereira gave the scoop after the meeting in the prison which was also attended by the diplomat Celso Amorin, the Workers Party (PT) and head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 2003 and 2010.

The bride is Rosángela da Silva, a sociologist living in Curitiba. In 2003, she began working at the Itaipú Dam, located on the Triple Border with Argentina and Paraguay, according to Epoca magazine and the Folha newspaper of S. Paulo.

They met in the 1990s when Lula had already played in the first of his five presidential elections – he would be defeated in the tie by Fernando Collor de Mello – and Rosángela, whom his friends call "Janja", was a young girl. 39, barely 20 years old

It was during the caravans of citizenship that the politician crisscrossed cities across the country by bus, car and even canoe.

After more than two decades of professional relations, Lula and "Janja" began their love affair a little more than a year ago, before the petist leader was admitted to the police department, where he occupies a room of 15 square meters in the building. fourth floor, prevented from getting in touch with other inmates.

She visited him frequently in the prison, writes Epoca.

Lula is twice widowed, the second in February 2017 of Maria Leticia Lula da Silva with whom she has been married for more than 40 years and whose fatal ACV has attributed to the humiliations suffered in the course of the case Lava Jato.

At the end of April, he gave the first interview in prison, when he declared that he felt good and that he did not rule out the return to the presidency, even though it was 39, was not his priority.

With a gray jacket and a light blue shirt, well-cut hair and beard, he commented in a pleasant tone that he hoped to live more than a hundred years.

Yesterday, at the end of his 408th day of incarceration, he was greeted by children studying at the Florestan Fernandes School, in the interior of São Paulo, belonging to the Landless Workers Movement. In a rural area.

The children made a chorus with the motto "Lula Libre" which is repeated in the vigil held every day since April 7 of last year by landless and PT activists, as well as visitors who arrive periodically.

This slogan was chanted Sunday in the recital of singer Chico César in San Pablo where he had been voceada last Wednesday when tens of thousands of students and teachers invaded Paulista Avenue in the march. the repudiation of the government and the defense of education.

Some two million Brazilians have been mobilized in about two hundred cities across the country to protest President Jair Bolsonaro for cutting the education budget.

The former captain and president, embarrbaded, called the protesters "useful idiots" for participating in events where, he said, many parades had the slogan "Lula Libre".

This motto apparently reveals the president and his sons Eduardo, Carlos and Flavio, members of the "Bolsonaro clan".

This fixation caused a blunder of the Eduardo MP, president of the Commission of the foreign relations of the recent pbadage in Argentina.

During a variety show broadcast this weekend on the Rede TV channel, Eduardo, the president's son, failed by badociating the word Lula with the adjective "free", which was underlined by the presenter and celebrated by the public.