Former Brazilian presidents Lula and Rousseff support Mélenchon

Europe 1 with AFP 6:27 p.m., April 5, 2022

Former left-wing Brazilian presidents Lula (2003-2011), his country's presidential candidate in October, and Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016) support Jean-Luc Mélenchon for the French presidential election, the Insoumis campaign announced on Tuesday. .

Support justified by their "gratitude" towards Mélenchon

These two figures of the left on the international level justified their support by their "gratitude" towards Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who had visited in 2019 Lula when he was in prison for corruption charges, finally invalidated.

"We express our appreciation and gratitude for the unrestricted solidarity that the comrades of La France insoumise have always shown to the Workers' Party and to the Brazilian people in the most difficult times for democracy in our country," they wrote in a statement. official statement translated on the site of the Parliament of the People's Union.

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"We will not forget their firm position in the face of the coup d'etat against President Dilma and the unjust and illegal condemnation of President Lula", specified the two former heads of state.

"We wish comrade Jean-Luc Mélenchon and LFI success in this week's election days, which are part of the fight for peace, self-determination of peoples, justice and equal rights", have-- they concluded.

Once free, Lula had visited Jean-Luc Mélenchon in Paris in 2021, after being received at the Elysée.

But he had also been received in 2020 by the mayor of Paris and socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo.

Lula is a candidate for the Brazilian presidential election in October 2022.