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Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is today a little closer to being a presidential candidate in the October 2022 elections. Federal Supreme Court judge Edson Fachin decided this Monday to annul
all the convictions
against him in the field of Operation Lava Jato.
In this way, Lula
recovers all his political rights
and will be able to be a candidate again.
Until now it could not be, because the Law of the 'Clean File' prohibits candidacies of people sentenced in the second instance.
In his decision, the judge declared the
"incompetence"
of the Federal Justice of the state of Paraná and the "nullity" of the three sentences that had come from there against Lula: the case of the Guarujá triplex, the Atibaia farm and the headquarters from the Lula Institute.
All of them were related to alleged favors that Lula received from the country's large construction companies, such as OAS or Odebrecht.
In this way, the Justice does not declare Lula innocent, but recognizes that the processes were full of
irregularities
and that the former president
did not have the right to a fair trial
.
Now, the Federal District justice will have to decide if something can be taken advantage of from those processes or if it is necessary to start from scratch.
The annulment of these processes represents an unprecedented blow against Operation Lava Jato,
the largest anti-corruption investigation
carried out in recent years in Latin America, and especially against the work of Judge Sérgio Moro, whose impartiality was always in question.
The messages that Moro exchanged with the prosecuting prosecutors have been leaking for a long time, and that according to Lula's environment, they show that there was
a strategy designed
to remove him from the presidential race in 2018. Lula was convicted, entered jail and he could not contest the elections for which he started as a favorite and which Jair Bolsonaro ended up winning.
Moro, who condemned him and ended his political career, was
chosen by Bolsonaro as Minister of Justice.
The annulment of the sentences, awaited by Lula and his lawyers for months, came by surprise and is beginning to shed light on the electoral scenario of 2022.
Lula never threw in the towel, and at 75 years old, he always assured that he feels young and strong to try a third term.
Until now, the Workers' Party (PT) had counted on presenting Fernando Haddad again in the elections that will be held in two years, but both the former Minister of Education and the party do not tire of repeating that
if Lula can be candidate, Lula will be at the polls.
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