Brazil: "Bolsonaro will be worried by the return of Lula's political rights"
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Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks at an event at the Geneva Press Club, March 6, 2020. AFP
By: Jeanne Bartoli
8 mins
In Brazil, Supreme Court judge Edson Fachin quashed corruption convictions against former President Lula, 75, saying the Curitiba court that tried him was not competent.
Leading the polls in 2018, Lula had been stripped of his political rights, even serving a prison sentence from April 2018 to November 2019. How was the news received?
Can we expect a Lula-Bolsonaro duel in 2022?
Decryption of Maud Chirio, historian, lecturer at Gustave Eiffel University and specialist in contemporary Brazil.
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Maud Chirio is the author of
Politics in Uniform, the Brazilian Experience (1960-1980)
, at the
Presses Universitaires de Rennes
.
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