• JOAN ROYO GUAL

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Friday, November 1, 2019 - 02:20

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  • Brazil. Jair Bolsonaro, rejects his connection with the murder of Marielle Franco: "All the time making my life a hell, fuck!"

Professor Fernando Haddad says he is "very happy" with his return to classes at the University of São Paulo. Just a year ago I was in the eye of the hurricane, in the final stretch of the electoral campaign that ended up losing to Jair Bolsonaro. A year later, he expresses his concern about the impact that the ultra-right-wing leader can cause in the medium and long term, and although he is confident of the release of Lula, his mentor in politics, he says he is ready to take the field in the elections of 2022

"About the Government of Bolsonaro did not have many expectations, is a person who did not prepare to occupy the highest office of the Republic ... Bolsonaro is not a Democrat, he does not have democracy as a value , you see him in his behavior , in the personal difficulty he has to deal with the difference, "says Haddad in an interview with EL MUNDO. On the alleged link between the current president and the murder of Councilwoman Marielle Franco, he did not want to enter into assessments.

The former presidential candidate of the Workers' Party (PT) says he is worried about the legacy left by the extreme right in education policy, in the environment or in foreign relations, where Brazil's diplomatic tradition has turned 180 degrees to put at the service of a "vassalage to the US without getting anything in return," he criticizes.

Haddad made his electoral campaign against the clock. Former President Lula was the official candidate of the PT, until at the last moment the Justice annulled his candidacy, as expected, since he was in jail. Haddad took over in the final sprint looking for the transfer of votes, and although he managed to move on to the second turn, he failed to stop the Bolsonarist wave. "I personally did everything possible, everything that was within our reach," says Haddad, who believes that the dispute did not take place on equal terms and left significant injuries in Brazilian society.

Brazil has put itself at the service of a vassalage to the US in exchange for nothing

"Brazil is still very damaged, very fractured by everything that happened. There is a lot of talk about polarization, but it is not a good word. A democracy has two, three poles, that is normal. What can not be is intolerance," he laments. , in reference to the hate speech that in his opinion was installed in the Planalto Palace.

Looking back, Haddad quotes the judges and promoters who were "at the service of a candidacy", referring to Sérgio Moro, who months after condemning Lula and paving the way to Bolsonaro became his minister of Justice. In addition, there was another unexpected factor, the rain of 'fake news' and massive messages on WhatsApp: "We were not prepared for the digital war they prepared against us, only one side fired, and we did not know where the shots came from, it was a scheme with a lot of money, sponsored from outside ... and I see no provision in Justice to reveal what really happened last year. "

The former Minister of Education and former mayor of São Paulo believes that Brazilians are gradually understanding the abuses of Operation Lava Jato, which promised to end corruption in the country and turned the political system upside down. In recent months, a trickle of private conversations leaked by The Intercept showed that Moro and the prosecutors helped each other to create the optimal conditions to imprison Lula.

Justice is not willing to reveal what really happened last year

Haddad believes that the PT was a "victim" of a judicial persecution and when asked for self-criticism he does not cite the word corruption. In his opinion, the party has little to do with the scandal that was uncovered in Petrobras: "They are directors who were corrupted by a cartel of companies," he says.

While defining the future of Lula (the Supreme Court will decide in the coming weeks if it annuls the sentence that keeps him in prison due to Moro's lack of impartiality), Haddad confesses that he 'trains' just in case. There is a lot left for the 2022 elections, but he says he is willing to repeat as a replacement: "If Lula or the PT understand that they can take advantage of Haddad ... I am a player who arrives on time, I warm up, all the exercises, diet .. I prepare for the game, "he jokes.

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