They allege that the judge who ordered Lula's liberty is "absolutely incompetent"

ARCHIVE – In this archive photo from June 6, 2016, former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks at a public enterprise defense rally and against the interim president Brazilian Michel Temer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP photo / Felipe Dana, Archive)

Sao Paulo, July 8th. The judge Sergio Moro who sentenced the former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in first instance for corruption, questioned the competence of the magistrate who ordered today 39, the release of the former head of state, imprisoned since April to serve a 12-year prison sentence.

In a car, Moro stated that Rogerio Favreto is "absolutely incompetent" to order the release of Lula after the eighth chamber of the Regional Regional Court of the Fourth Region convicted him of second instance and that the Supreme Court voted in favor of his arrest for the enforcement of the sentence

Favreto, of the Regional Court of the Fourth Region (TRF-4), based in Porto Alegre, granted a "Habeas corpus" in Lula and decided the suspension of the provisional execution of the sentence in "emergency regime". "

] Favreto reiterated in a new document that the release of Lula, the first former president of Brazil convicted of a common crime, must be" immediate ".

Judge Favreto today surprised By his decision and, among his arguments, alleges that the former President's prison prevents him from exercising his rights as a candidate for the Presidency even it is virtually excluded by law after the second instance conviction.

Lula was sentenced a year ago Judge Sergio Moro, charged with investigating the Petrobras case, at age 9 and 6 imprisonment for the crimes of pbadive bribery and money laundering

The sentence was brought in second instance to twelve years and one month in prison for the eighth room of the TRF-4 of Porto Alegre, who determined the prisoner of the former president before the appeals in higher instances.

The Court took for granted that the former president, who ruled Brazil between 2003 and 2010, enjoyed an apartment on a beach in Sao Paulo in exchange for promoting of the construction company OAS in the awarding of public contracts of the national oil company Petrobras.

who reiterated his candidacy for the presidential elections in October, has served his sentence since April at the headquarters of the Federal Police Curitiba, capital of the southern state of Paraná and the epicenter of the investigations of the operation Lava Jato. EFE