Lula da Silva, in her first prison interview: "We are ruled by a group of lunatics"

"Either build a solid party, or it will not last"said Lula da Silva about Brazil's current president, Jair Bolsonaro, while calling on the Brazilian elite to self-criticize: "It can not be that this country is ruled by a gang of lunatics. The country does not deserve it and especially the people do not deserve it. "

The former president, founder of the Workers Party (PT), imprisoned since April 2018 for corruption and money laundering, was Authorized by justice this week to give his first interview of Curitiba Prison in which he finds himself. Almost in the same vein, the Superior Court of Justice reduced the sentence and opened the door to his freedom.

"No problem" if I do not go out of prison anymore, said the Petista in statements to the newspaper Folha do Sao Paulo, who agreed to interview him under strict security conditions.

"I'm sure to sleep every night with a clear conscience. And I'm sure (the Attorney Deltan) Dallagnol is not sleeping and (former Judge Sergio) Moro is not sleeping"he said.

In addition, he said to be "obsessed" with the proof of his innocence and the "mounted trickery" against him, in addition to unmasking Moro.

About the former magistrate and current Minister of Justice of Bolsonaro, Lula was pointed: "Moro will not survive the politics", drawn. He also expressed his wish – if released from prison – to talk with the military leaders to understand the reason for the hatred of the PT, after his government recovered the budget of the Armed Forces.

Lula also said that the fight between President Bolsonaro and his deputy, the army, continues since the prison Hamilton Mourão, and expressed "grateful" to the second "for what he did before the death of my grandson." Then the general had argued that the PT leader's presence at the funeral of the little one was "a humanitarian issue".

The little Arthur Araújo, barely 7 years old, died last March 1 for a bacterium, a memory that caused the tears of the former president of Brazil. "Sometimes I think it would have been a lot easier if I had died, I lived 73 years, I could have died and let my grandson live," he said. declared.

In addition, he stated that Brazil today has "the lowest level of foreign policy" of its life. And he joked that the former foreign minister of his government, Celso Amorim, owed much to the fact that the current Foreign Minister, Ernesto Araújo, had decided to make a career at Itamaraty, the name of the government. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of his country.

Folha got an interview with Lula da Silva after a series of court battles that were fired on Thursday when the police finally cleared the meeting.