Lula can not be a candidate until 2035 | Chronic

The possibility of leaving prison and being placed under house arrest next September has generated the joy of supporters of Lula da Silva. However, complications have appeared.

Wednesday, we learned the impossibility for the former president to pay a deposit and this Thursday, when they began to do accounting, it was found that his return to politics would be too complicated.

By law, it can only be resubmitted in 2035, at the age of 89, because "Persons sentenced from the sentence are not eligible until eight years after serving their sentence".

This ban responds to the fact that the former president and leader of the Workers Party is subject to the so-called Clean Record Act, promulgated by Lula himself while he was president, in order to prevent the Access to elective offices of convicted persons

Although this was not fully tested, he was sentenced to 12 years and a month for receiving a triplex in the city of São Paulo Guarujá spa by the OAS construction company, although the Court Supreme Court reduced his sentence to eight years and ten months this week. .