President Lula confirms that he’ll search a fourth time period in Brazil’s 2026 elections | International | EUROtoday

The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who will flip 80 subsequent week, confirmed this Thursday that he intends to run within the elections that Brazil will maintain in October 2026 to win a fourth time period. The leftist was already flirting with the concept of ​​re-election, however by no means till now had he been so categorical. If he wins, he would govern till the tip of 2030 and would depart the presidency on the age of 85.

The most necessary Brazilian politician of the twenty first century has made the announcement on the opposite facet of the world, greater than 16,000 kilometers from house, throughout a state go to to Indonesia that has simply begun. “I want to tell you that I am going to turn 80, but you can be sure that I have the same energy as when I was 30. And I am going to run for a fourth term in Brazil,” Lula said in Jakarta, throughout his look earlier than the press alongside his counterpart, Prabowo Subianto.

Indonesia is a crucial ally of the Global South that additionally belongs to the BRICS and is a priceless market in these occasions of tariff battle with the United States. The Brazilian president will journey from there to Malaysia to take part within the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) summit. Lula’s Government is working to carry, parallel to the summit, the long-awaited face-to-face assembly between Lula and President Donald Trump on Sunday. The two spoke by telephone a few weeks in the past and the Brazilian requested him to eradicate the 50% tariffs with which he has penalized exports.

In latest months, Lula has been making clear his intention to hunt a fourth time period regardless of his age. The fears of repeating the catastrophe of the American Joe Biden and his late withdrawal appear forgotten. The president of Brazil usually enjoys good well being and workout routines, as he likes to indicate on social media. But ten months in the past he needed to bear emergency surgical procedure for a mind hemorrhage, the results of a home fall. It was his third time below the knife on this time period. In 2022, a nodule in his larynx was eliminated, years after overcoming throat most cancers, and in 2023 he was fitted with a hip prosthesis.

Lula hopes to reiterate in individual to Trump subsequent Sunday, the eve of his eightieth birthday, his request that he withdraw the 50% tariffs he imposed on Brazil in August. This Thursday in Indonesia, the Brazilian president has returned to the fray with one of many points that touches a nerve for Trump, the potential of turning his again on the greenback: “Indonesia and Brazil do not want a second Cold War,” Lula declared. “We want free trade. What’s more: both Indonesia and Brazil are interested in discussing the possibility of trading between us using our currencies,” he famous, the newspaper stories. Estadão.

Trump argued, when imposing the best tax on the planet on Brazil, that former President Jair Bolsonaro, an ally of the American and chief of the opposition, was the sufferer of a witch hunt. The Supreme Court turned a deaf ear to this formidable stress and on September 11, it sentenced Bolsonaro to 27 years (24 in jail and three in detention) for main a coup d’état to cling to energy in 2022. The conspiracy included plans to kill Lula, the reliable winner of the elections.

He nice fee of Trump had a boomerang impact. He boosted Lula within the polls whereas Bolsonaro, who’s below home arrest and disqualified, was dropping in style help. Thanks to this example, Lula is experiencing a candy second after a severe recognition disaster firstly of this yr. Furthermore, neither the Workers’ Party nor the left have a candidate that even comes near the electoral power that Lula demonstrates within the polls. The veteran politician has by no means allowed one other chief to emerge who might overshadow him.

Although justice eliminated Bolsonaro from the subsequent elections, it is extremely possible that he may have the final phrase on the right-wing candidate, the one who will face Lula. Among the candidates, the governor of São Paulo, Tarcisio de Freitas, stands out. Other right-wing governors additionally seem, these of Paraná, Goiás and Minas Gerais, along with a number of members of the Bolsonaro household: the spouse, Michelle, or the sons Eduardo and Flávio.

Lula, a metallurgist and commerce unionist earlier than coming into politics, based the Workers’ Party within the Eighties together with an alliance of unions, grassroots Christians and intellectuals. After a number of failed makes an attempt, he received his first presidential elections and ruled Brazil for 2 consecutive phrases (2003-2011), with the struggle in opposition to poverty as his important banner. Five years later, the PT was evicted from energy via the impeachment to President Dilma Rousseff. During the lengthy decade that he was away from energy, Lula lived probably the most bitter second of his political life: he was imprisoned for a yr and a half, convicted of corruption in a case that, years later, was annulled by the Supreme Court.

In 2022, having simply turned 77, he received a 3rd time period by defeating the far-right Jair Bolsonaro within the closest elections in Brazilian historical past. He received by lower than two factors and with out a parliamentary majority. In any case, it culminated in a spectacular private political resurrection that introduced the left again to energy. And his intention is to delay his political profession for an additional 5 years.