Lula in love? | A former minister said that "his first …

The former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, imprisoned for corruption since April 2018, is in love and he gets out of jail, he will marry first, said the former minister of Finance, Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira, after visiting the ex-president in prison. .

"His physical and mental fitness is optimal (…) His greatest demand is that his innocence be recognized," said the former head on his Facebook profile, referring to the visit made on Thursday to the former President of the police, 73 years old. Federal Government of Curitiba. And he continued with a more personal detail: "He is in love and his first project, after his release from prison, is going to get married," said the former Minister of Science and Technology at the second government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso.

According to a reporter from Epoca magazine, the girlfriend is reported to have visited Lula at the prison. She would be around 40 years old.

In the coming months, Lula could benefit from a semi-open plan after the April 23 appeal court in Brasilia reduced her sentence from 12 years and one month's imprisonment to 8 years and 10 months .

The exmandatario, widowed since February 2017, is a candidate for this benefit after having served one-sixth of his sentence. However, he has another sentence in first instance and other cases in court.

In early May, Lula had already claimed that he would apply for the transition to the semi-open regime, in one of the first interviews that he had been giving in prison since his arrest, two weeks after that. the Federal Supreme Court (STF) allowed him to speak to the media.

"I'm going to ask, I want to go home, but now, if I have to give up trying to defend myself, I have no problem staying here," he said.

In 2017, his then wife, Marisa Lula da Silva, died at the age of 66 following a stroke.