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> However, some commenters seem to view Lula as a corrupt politician, essentially nothing more than a crook.

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...

https://archive.ph/gINDU

> 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.

> He walked free because of some jurisdiction bullshit and his judgement is pending retrial to this day.

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...

> Collaboration between prosecution and judges

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.

I understand you're tired, but I'm leaving this source for the sake of informing others:

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.

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