Lula: Brazil's jailed ex-leader barred from presidential race by electoral court

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

Brazil's top electoral court has ruled that jailed former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva cannot run as a candidate in the presidential election because of his corruption conviction.

Judges voted against his running in October's ballot by a majority of six votes to one in the seven-member court.

Lula, 72, was leading in polls ahead of the vote despite serving a 12-year jail term for accepting a bribe.
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Brazil's Workers' Party (PT) later responded to the court's decision in a statement, saying it would "fight by all means" for Lula's candidacy.

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-45380237

[Judi Lynn]

1. Fascists supporters of previous dictatorships can only grab back the power by imprisoning

the leftist voted in by the majority in the Americas, after years of scheming and covertly sabotaging the preferred people in office.

Lula is the greatest Brazilian leader, has been the most beloved leader in the Americas, was abused himself by the previous military dictatorship, along with family members, and his successor, Dilma Rousseff. There's no way in hell either of these proven patriots would dream of screwing up a life long record of struggling to make things right for the people of Brazil, and everyone, especially those who concocted this ploy, knows it.

It will take time, but the conspicuous thieves, murderers, traitors, racist, misogynist oligarchs who try to control this country, like the others, ARE going down to stay.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

2. Trump wants judges like that. Loyal to him, and the law be damned. nt