Some of the comebacks achieved great success for their roles
From Churchill to Lola.. The art of returning to politics
Luis Inacio Lula da Silva is back in power after 4 years in prison.
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Juan Perón became a politician of legendary proportions in Argentine history.
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Charles de Gaulle returned to power again and achieved great victories.
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Berlusconi is back in power in Italy.
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Like Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, who was re-elected (Sunday) as President of Brazil for a third term, after four years of controversial imprisonment, due to suspicions of corruption, other political leaders have made an unexpected return to the political scene.
Winston Churchill
Before becoming one of the most influential figures during World War II, Winston Churchill was forced to resign from command of the British Navy in 1915 after the failure of the Dardanelles (Galipoli) campaign, in which tens of thousands of soldiers died.
However, he regained his position 25 years later, after Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939.
He was head of the British coalition government throughout the Second World War, and charged the country's energies through his enthusiastic speeches.
After the war, Churchill experienced a new political setback, but returned to power in 1951 at the age of 76.
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle, the author of the famous Appeal of 18 June 1940, presided over the Provisional Government of the French Republic formed in France after the liberation of Paris in August 1944.
But he resigned in 1946 due to his inability to unify the vision and movement of the main parties.
He even withdrew from political life entirely after the failure of the French People's Assembly in the municipal elections in 1953.
However, like Churchill, he returned to the fore a few years later.
On June 1, 1958, after the Algerian rebellion on May 13, French President Rene Coty hired de Gaulle, who commissioned the formation of the first government under the Fourth Republic.
On December 21, 1958, de Gaulle was elected the first president of the Fifth Republic.
He left politics permanently in April 1969 after a referendum on Senate reform and decentralization failed.
Juan Peron
After holding several government positions, under the Argentine military dictatorship, Juan Perón was elected president in 1946 and re-elected in 1951.
He became a politician of legendary proportions in Argentine history, enhanced by the elegance and aura of his wife, actress Evita.
The couple who founded the Peronist movement enjoyed wide popularity, but a military coup overthrew them in 1955.
Juan Perón went into exile in Paraguay, and then Madrid.
He returned to Argentina, Return of the Heroes, in June 1973, where he was re-elected in September for a third term, 18 years after leaving the country, but he died less than a year later.
Deng Hsiaoping
Deng Xiaoping, the architect of modern China, paving the way for it to become the great economic power of the 21st century, has been fired several times.
He was appointed to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in 1945 and experienced a skyrocketing rise after the adoption of the communist regime in the country in 1949. But during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) he was accused of “taking the capitalist way” and sent to work as a mechanic in the provinces.
In 1973 he again became deputy prime minister, and then chief of staff of the Chinese armies.
However, with the death of the Prime Minister, Chou Enlai, in January 1976, he was sacked again for "swerving to the right".
He returned to power in 1978 and launched a policy of reforms and economic openness.
Aung San Suu Kyi
The Burmese opposition leader won the elections in May 1990, but the military regime refused to hand her power.
Aung San Suu Kyi spent 15 years under house arrest in her family home in Rangoon.
She became prime minister in 2016 after her party won the first free elections in a quarter of a century.
However, a new military coup took place in February 2021. Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested, in solitary confinement in a prison in Naypyidaw.
Silvio Berlusconi
Since 1994, Silvio Berlusconi has ruled Italy three times, as his career aligns with the country's political history over the past 30 years.
At the age of 86, despite the sex scandals and the trial that tarnished his reputation, Berlusconi returned again, with his re-election to the Senate, at the head of one of the parties of the coalition led by the far-right that won the last legislative elections at the end of last September.
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