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“Estoy aquí para gobernar este país en una situación muy difícil”, admitió Lula / Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is elected president of Brazil


El expresidente brasileño Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva se comprometió este domingo a “restablecer la paz” y gobernar para “todos” en un Brasil dividido, en su primer pronunciamiento tras ganar las elecciones ante el actual gobernante, Jair Bolsonaro.

“Estoy aquí para gobernar este país en una situación muy difícil, pero con la ayuda del pueblo vamos a encontrar una salida para que el país vuelva a vivir democráticamente”, afirmó el líder del Partido de los Trabajadores (PT) desde un hotel de la ciudad de Sao Paulo.

Con el 99,89 % del censo escrutado, Lula, que asumirá el poder el 1 de enero de 2023, ganó las presidenciales con un 50,90 % de los votos, frente al 49,10 % que obtuvo el líder ultraderechista.

“A partir de enero de 2023, voy a gobernar” para 213 millones de brasileños; “no existen dos Brasiles, somos un único país, un único pueblo, una gran nación”, señaló el dirigente progresista, en compañía de sus principales aliados y su esposa, la socióloga Rosângela Silva.

El presidente electo por el izquierdista Partido de los Trabajadores (PT) Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva bebe agua mientras habla después de ganar la segunda vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales, en Sao Paulo, Brasil, el 30 de octubre de 2022. – El veterano izquierdista brasileño Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva fue elegido presidente el domingo por un pelo, superando a su rival de extrema derecha en una votación a la baja que dividió al país en dos, dijeron las autoridades electorales. (Foto de NELSON ALMEIDA / AFP)

Lula, vestido con una camisa vaquera, manifestó, en un discurso leído, que “es la hora de reunir las familias y rehacer los lazos de amistad rotos por la propagación criminal del odio”.

“A nadie le interesa vivir en un estado permanente de guerra. Este pueblo está cansado de ver al otro como enemigo. Es hora de bajar a las armas. Armas matan y nosotros escogemos la vida”, manifestó.

En sus primeras palabras, también prometió “fortalecer” la lucha contra la violencia machista y “enfrentar sin tregua el racismo y la discriminación” para que “blancos, negros e indígenas tengan los mismos derechos”.

“El desafío es inmenso, es necesario reconstruir este país en todas sus dimensiones. Necesitamos reconstruir el alma de este país, el respeto a las diferencias y el amor al prójimo”, afirmó en un pronunciamiento que buscó tender la mano a todos en un país extremadamente polarizado.

Lula, que gobernó el país entre 2003 y 2010 y, a partir del próximo enero, asumirá un tercer mandato, tendrá como vicepresidente a un antiguo adversario, el exgobernador de Sao Paulo, Geraldo Alckmin, un liberal de perfil conservador.

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The former president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. – ROBERTA ALINE / ZUMA PRESS / CONTACTO PHOTO© Provided by News 360

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is elected president of Brazil

Lula is the first Brazilian ex-president to be elected for a new term: remember his political trajectory

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is the first former Brazilian president to be elected to serve a new term in office. At 7:57pm, the PT candidate had 59.563.912 votes and could no longer be reached by his opponent, the current occupant of the Planalto Jair Bolsonaro (PL), consolidating the victory.

It was not an easy path. Neither for him, nor for Brazilian democracy. After a judicial conviction in proceedings riddled with illegalities and conducted by a judge considered suspect by the Supreme Court (STF), Lula spent 580 days in prison and was prevented from running for the 2018 elections, when he was leading the pre-candidacy polls.

After becoming eligible to participate through a Court decision in April 2021, the former president began his journey to return to the Presidency of the Republic at a time in history when the country’s very democratic institutions were at risk.

 “There is a fantastic phrase by Paulo Freire, which I used to show the PT militants about the alliance with Alckmin: from time to time we need to be together with the divergent to combat the antagonistic. And now we need to overcome the antagonism of fascism, of the ultra-right,” said Lula during the National Journal’s interview, held on August 25. 

And the PT candidate put this in practice. To make his victory possible and also to ensure stability in the more than troubled political scenario, Lula put as his vice-president the former governor of São Paulo and one of the founders of PSDB, Geraldo Alckmin, today in PSB, drawing a line between what can be defined as adversary and enemy. 

At the same time that he opened even more dialogue with the popular movements, excluded from any possibility of participating in the elaboration of public policies at the federal level since the overthrow of Dilma Rousseff. He sought dialogue with sectors of society not historically allied to PT. Recall the most important moments in Lula’s trajectory up to the election for his third term

First round of voting

In the first round, held on October 2, Lula won 57.2 million votes, which corresponds to 48.43% of the electorate. Bolsonaro was the first candidate for re-election not to lead the vote in the first round.  Since then, the PT campaign has worked to close support among former presidents, other candidates and governors.

Second Round

The third-place candidate in the first round, MDB candidate Simone Tebet, confirmed her support for Lula a few days later. In a statement broadcast on social networks, Tebet read the document she called “Manifesto to the Brazilian People”. Citing the nearly 5 million votes she received in the first round, she said she is “not authorized to abandon the streets and squares until the voter’s sovereign decision is realized”. 

The fourth place candidate, Ciro Gomes (PDT), did not explicitly support Lula, but followed the decision of his party, which positioned itself for Lula’s return to the Planalto. Unlike Tebet, Ciro Gomes did not participate in any of Lula’s campaign events.

Soon after, former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso (PSDB), who ran the country from 1995 to 2003, joined Tebet. In his announcement, FHC declared his support “for a history of struggle for democracy and social inclusion”.

Between the first and second rounds, voters also watched the presidential debates, which were marked by misinformation and attacks.  

Jair Bolsonaro (PL) made the discussion impossible in the first block of the TV Globo debate, on Friday night (28). Nervous, Bolsonaro tried to force the version that would strengthen the minimum wage, contrary to the information given by his Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes, who foresaw the deindexation of the benefit from inflation. For much of the debate, Bolsonaro insisted on the theme. 

From the newsroom Translated by: Zoe PC, with Peoples Dispatch e Flávia Chacon