He is corrupt and a criminal. Officials actually tried to censor these facts here in Brazil.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-30/lula-wins...
> Lula was a wildly popular president before accusations of wrongdoing and fiscal mismanagement resulted in the impeachment of his hand-picked successor, Dilma Rousseff in 2016.
> By 2019, Lula was behind bars and facing a long prison sentence amid accusations he steered billions of state contracts to allies.
> Released on a technicality, it cleared the way for him to run last year after the Supreme Court quashed his convictions.
He walked free because of some jurisdiction bullshit and his judgement is pending retrial to this day. He was not absolved of wrongdoing as he claimed.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56326389
Didn't just escape justice, he made it back to political office, to the presidency of this country.
Collaboration between prosecution and judges [1] is not bullshit.
Also his judgement is not pending. Some charges were dropped by the new court because there were not enough evidences and the other case is now prescribed [2].
[1] https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/04/brazil-crimi...
[2] https://oglobo.globo.com/politica/juiza-federal-do-df-reconh...
That's not the reason why he was cleared by the supreme court though. It says in all references it was because the court that tried him didn't have jurisdiction. The crimes didn't happen where he was tried.
> Some charges were dropped by the new court because there were not enough evidences and the other case is now prescribed
Wow.
I give up. I don't have the energy for this anymore.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/24/lula-judge-was...
Maybe that wasn't the final ruling that set him free, but it was a very important step into it.
I believe i recall him also looking to 'send in the military and kill all those who protest' something along those lines. This was in comparison to Canada's banning of protests and simply arresting all the lawful protestors. Under the same vein, having not followed the same lockdowns for covid he was committing crimes against humanity.
I do believe he was pro-putin and ukraine war. In that he was providing support to russia, but no direct military support? Kind of like what the west is doing for ukraine. I get this, BRICs is a thing.
Here's the thing, you dont have to tell me the above is inaccurate. Canadian political media is extremely biased. Curious if you agree with any of this?