Brazil’s Lula da Silva, explained

Lula da Silva wants to be president for a second time. But Brazil has changed.

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On October 2, 2022, Brazilians voted in the first round of their presidential election. The top two finishers were current president Jair Bolsonaro and former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Both candidates will face each other in a run-off on October 30. Lula is considered likely to win.

Lula is arguably Brazil’s most well-known and complex politician. He helped form a powerful political party, had two successful terms in office, and even served jail time over corruption and bribery allegations. After four years of Bolsonaro’s presidency, the core of Lula’s campaign has focused on restoring the Brazil of his own presidency. But a lot has changed in Brazil since his time in office.

Watch this video for a glance at Lula’s career and to understand why his second time as president would be very different than his first.

Some sources that were helpful to us in researching this story:

The Brazilian Report’s election coverage
https://brazilian.report/

Lula and His Politics of Cunning by John French
https://uncpress.org/book/97814696557...

Nurturing Hope, Deepening Democracy, and Combating Inequalities in Brazil: Lula, the Workers' Party, and Dilma Rousseff's 2010 Election as President by John French and Alexandre Fortes
https://read.dukeupress.edu/labor/art...

Lula’s Second Act by Giancarlo Summa
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/onlin...

Can Brazil Turn Back the Clock by Brian Winter
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articl...

How Bolsonaro Might Win-Even If He Loses by Brian Winter
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/brazil...

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