Lula vows to keep fighting for poor people, denounces Bolsonaro's economic policies. FMTNews Brazil
Lula revels in the adoration of his followers at the metalworkers’ union he once led.
Lula was mobbed when he arrived at the union in Sao Bernardo do Campo, near Brazil’s biggest city of Sao Paulo, as people jostled to hug and shake hands with the former shoeshine boy who rose to become one of Brazil’s most popular presidents. Lula’s release came after a politically sensitive Supreme Court ruling on Thursday that could free thousands of convicts.
The Supreme Court’s decision and Lula’s release provoked thousands of pro-government protesters to take to the streets in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo on Saturday in opposition of the court’s ruling.Lula’s criminal record prevents him from running for political office, at least for now. In an impassioned address on Friday to hundreds of supporters who greeted him as he walked out of the federal police headquarters in the southern city of Curitiba, Lula vowed to keep fighting for poor people.
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