Lula benefits from overturned Supreme Court rule requiring convicted criminals to go to jail after losing first appeal. FMTNews Lula Brazil
Lula vows to keep fighting for poor people and denounces current president, Jair Bolsonaro’s economic policies.
“People are hungrier, they have no jobs, people work for Uber or delivering pizzas on a bike,” Lula said in remarks sometimes drowned out by cheers from the crowd and fireworks overhead. Many of those affected by the 6-5 ruling are political and business leaders caught up in a massive corruption probe dubbed Car Wash that began in 2014.
“I’m coming for you, wait for me!” Rosangela da Silva, Lula’s girlfriend, tweeted after the Supreme Court announced its decision. Justice Minister Sergio Moro, who convicted Lula when he was a judge in 2017, said the Supreme Court’s decision must be respected, but he noted “Congress can modify the Constitution or the law” to allow the jailing of convicted criminals after their first appeal.
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