Brazil’s Lula hints at return to politics, COVID-19, Bolsonaro’s explosion on economy

Former Brazilian President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva set the stage for the 2022 presidential race on Wednesday, using his first speech since President Jair Bolsonaro sentenced the explosion to handle the epidemic and the economy.

Lula, whose corruption charges were allowed by the Supreme Court Justice to return to the political post on Monday, said he had not decided whether to run in the election next year. But his attack on Bolsonaro, and the format of the incident, had a clear sense of a campaign launch.

“This country is disorganized and falling because it has no government,” he told the audience at the Metal Workers Union in São Bernardo do Campo, comparing the current economic crisis to strong growth and inequality when he From 2003 to 2011 led Brazil.

“Health, Jobs and Justice for Brazil,” read a banner hanging above the stage in the Union, where Lula’s political career took off, as she launched a nationwide attack in the 1980s.

Lula attacked Bolsonaro directly for his record for dealing with the coronovirus epidemic, specifically for his delay in obtaining vaccines and his effectiveness for public dismissal of the president.

Brazil has lost nearly 2,70,000 people at COVID-19, the worst death outside the United States, as local versions push the country’s outbreak to its worst yet.

“Many of these deaths could have been avoided,” Lula said.

Just hours after Lula’s criticism, Bresilaro and the assistant appeared masked at an official event in Brasilia – a rare scene for the president who has shaken off the mask, lowered the virus’s gravity and said he was a vaccine. Will refuse

In this incident, Bolsonaro defended his government’s handling of the epidemic, saying that by the end of this year Brazil will have a dose of 400 million vaccines.

“We were tireless from the first moment in fighting the epidemic,” he said.

The president’s son, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, tweeted with the photo of his father, tweeting: “The vaccine is a weapon.”

Lula makes her pitch

In his speech, Lula envisions himself as a veteran politician eager to set the country on the right track, invoking a broad coalition to defeat Bolsonaro, his respect for the independent press, business leaders, and the military Stressed on.

He said, “When I was ruled, I was called a ‘reconciliation’.” “I’m open to talking with everyone.”

However, Lula has also reinforced long-standing ideas that have sidelined the financial markets on the prospect of his political resurgence. The former union leader curtailed privatization, central bank autonomy and asset sales by the state-run oil firm Petrolle Brasileiro SA or Petrobras.

“People who are buying things from Petrobras, they were afraid the best, because we can change a lot,” Lula said. “If market ants give up live to sell us national patronage, they should be afraid of me.”

A poll by Pollster Real Time Big Data released by CNNBrasil on Wednesday showed both Lula and Bolsonaro with the necessary support to reach the second round of voting.