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there is no doubt that Lula will be elected president of Brazil again. The margins of doubt are whether he will be elected in the first or second round.
There are people who wonder, which Lula is coming? Lula is absolutely right to always remember that he has governed Brazil for eight years and there should be no question about how he will govern. To some, who still raise doubts about whether Lula will lead a democratic government, he reminds them that he lost three presidential elections, without ever questioning their results.
He always won and governed democratically. He coexisted perfectly with other powers of the republic and with the media, which always strongly opposed his government.
Lula democratically elected his successor, Dilma Rousseff, who was re-elected and could not govern in the new mandate, only because a coup d’état was mounted, now recognized even by the Judiciary, admitting that there were no accounting irregularities, the excuse that was used to dismiss her. Lula himself was arrested, accused without legal grounds and disqualified from being elected again in 2018.
Despite being innocent, Lula appeared before the police, accepted the arrest and proved his innocence in the 26 trials he suffered. He was released, he rescued his political rights, he ran for president again and now he is close to succeeding again. Everything democratically. Nobody has such a democratic trajectory as Lula, both when he lost elections and when he won them. When he was arrested and when he was released. When he was a candidate and when he governed.
Which Lula will govern again?, some ask. As if there were several Lulas. As if Lula were going to decide, when he is elected, what type of government he will carry out.
Lula has impressive continuity in his proposals and in his government plans. He always defended democracy, practiced it and fought against the dictatorship as he now fights for the restoration of democracy. It has always put into practice a tireless fight against social and regional inequalities, through the priority of social policies, income distribution, the generation of millions of jobs with a labor contract and the increase in wages always above the inflation.
Lula has always defended the rights of women, the poor, blacks, the LGBT community, the most fragile and the most needy. She always proposed and practiced conversations and negotiations to solve the country’s problems.
That is why Lula will be elected again with the massive support of women, the poor, blacks, Northeasterners and young people.
But Da Silva has advanced and has new proposals. First, he proposes a fiscal reform, since the Brazilian state is bankrupt. To promote the resumption of economic growth and return to the centrality of social policies: education, health and social assistance.
A reform that taxes the richest is considered by him essential to establish his historical programs and combat social and regional inequalities in Brazil.
Lula’s program has two fundamental axes: the restoration of democracy in Brazil and the resumption of anti-neoliberal economic policies. A Lula who values democracy more and is more clearly anti-neoliberal. With the resumption of the sovereign foreign policy that has always characterized it.
To what extent do Lula’s broad alliances today change the candidate’s historical political positions? Nothing, basically. In the composition of the government, probably.
That is why Lula is the favorite candidate in Sunday’s elections, probably to triumph in the first round. This is the Lula who will govern Brazil again.
