Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 2007

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva [ luˈiz iˈnasju ˈlulɐ da ˈsiwvɐ ] (* October 27, 1945 in Caetés , Pernambuco as Luiz Inácio da Silva ), often abbreviated as Lula , is a Brazilian politician . He was President of Brazil from January 1, 2003 to January 1, 2011 and is a founding member of the Brazilian labor party Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT). With its combination of assistantSocially and development-oriented economic policy he succeeded during his tenure in getting the majority of the population behind him. Programs such as Bolsa Família , the One Million Houses Program and Fome Zero have noticeably reduced extreme poverty and hunger. Brazil rose to become a regional power and a BRIC nation .

In 2017, Lula was charged with alleged money laundering and passive corruption by the federal judge Sergio Moro from Curitiba as part of Operation Lava Jato and sentenced to twelve years in prison in a trial that was also extremely controversial internationally. Lula vehemently denies all allegations and speaks of a political campaign against him. He was imprisoned; before all legal remedies were exhausted; this prevented him from representing the Labor Party in the 2018 presidential election , in which he was the favorite against the far-right Jair Bolsonaro . According to " The Intercept Brasil" there were illegal agreements between the then judge (and later appointed Minister of Justice by Bolsonaro) Moro, prosecutors and Lula's political opponents to know that he would be in jail before the presidential elections in October 2018. He spent 580 days in prison from April 7, 2018 to November 7, 2019 in Curitiba, in the south of the country. Lula was considered by supporters and sympathizers as the first political prisoner in the period after the military dictatorship . The judgments against him were overturned by the Supreme Court in early 2021 for formal reasons, because on the one hand the convicting court did not have jurisdiction and on the other hand the convicting judge Sergio Moro was partial or biased.

The nickname Lula (a nickname for Luís ), which his mother once gave him, was later officially included in his name. Most of the time he is called by that name.

Family, education, job

Lula in the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil)

Lula da Silva was the seventh of eight children of Aristides Inácio da Silva and Eurídice Ferreira de Mello. His father moved to the industrial belt in the south of São Paulo in search of work, and in 1952 Lula followed with his siblings and his mother. His father had meanwhile found a new wife and broke off contact with his family. Lula only went to school for a few years due to the lack of school fees . At the age of 12 he carried through various jobs, including in a laundry , as a shoe shine and as a delivery boy to ensure the family's livelihood.

Lula later worked in a metal factory and completed an apprenticeship as a metal worker at a vocational training facility of the Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial . From 1966 he worked at Villares, a large company in the metal industry in São Bernardo do Campo in the greater São Paulo area . At the same time he received further training at a private school from José Efromovich , which at that time belonged to the current President of Avianca Brazil .

Lula with his wife, Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva

Lula da Silva is widowed twice . In 1969 he married Maria de Lourdes, who died of hepatitis infection during pregnancy with the couple's first son in 1971 after the family could not raise the necessary money for treatment. In 1974 he married Marisa Letícia Rocco (1951-2017), with whom he has five children. He also has a daughter who was born in 1974 from a relationship with Miriam Cordeiro.

At the end of October 2011 it became known that Lula was suffering from a small and limited tumor on the larynx . Lula underwent chemotherapy and then radiation therapy .

Activity in the union

Lula came into contact with the trade union movement through his brother . In 1969 he was elected by the metalworkers' union as a deputy to the board of the regional group São Bernardo do Campo and Diadema. In the 1972 elections, he was re-elected to the board as general secretary. With 92 percent of the vote, the union members elected him as their chairman in 1975. Lula da Silva represented around 100,000 workers.

During the 1970s, the country's future president took part in organizing various union activities and major strikes . The Brazilian branch of Volkswagen, Volkswagen do Brasil , observed Lula during these activities and passed on information gathered to the military dictatorship. In 1979 he was appointed leader of a workers' strike. In 1980 he was arrested by the police of the military dictatorship and released after 31 days.

Political career

Dissatisfied with the results of the strikes, Lula founded the Partido dos Trabalhadores , PT ("Workers' Party") together with other trade unionists, intellectuals and representatives of various social groups on February 10, 1980 . The PT was represented in large parts of the country in 1982 and had around 400,000 members.

In 1986, Lula was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of the National Congress of Brazil with a record result as the representative of the State of São Paulo . The PT took an active part in the development of the new Brazilian constitution of 1988 and was able to enshrine important workers' rights in it. In other questions, such as B. the reorganization of land ownership, however, could not prevail.

In 1989 Lula da Silva fought for president as a candidate for the PT. Although he was very popular with parts of the population, he was not elected. Industry and finance feared that a socialist would harm economic interests.

Lula da Silva (right) in conversation with his Vice José Alencar (May 2004)

He ran again in all subsequent presidential elections . It was not until the election campaign for the 2002 elections that he consciously renounced his worker image and appeared in a suit and tie. In addition, he no longer emphasized his opinion that Brazil should not repay its foreign debt. Instead, he put on a program against hunger and poverty ( Fome Zero ) and for better education.

He managed to build a cautious relationship of trust with industry. For example, it was surprising when, shortly before the elections, a representative of an automobile manufacturer announced that a new model series would be produced in Brazil and that new jobs would be created for it. These signals also led, among other things, to a gain in confidence in the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), which finally welcomed Lula's later election.

Presidency

In the second ballot on October 27, 2002, Lula da Silva won against José Serra , the candidate of the Brazilian Social Democratic Party PSDB ( Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira ). He replaced Fernando Henrique Cardoso , who had been President of Brazil since 1995, in office.

Lula and his wife in 2003 in the Palácio da Alvorada , the official residence of the Brazilian presidents in the capital Brasília

The controversial industrialist Blairo Maggi , who was also Governor Mato Grossos , also belongs to Lula da Silva's sphere of influence . Greenpeace describes Maggi as one of the main people responsible for the destruction of the Brazilian rainforest .

In June 2006, Lula announced the candidacy for a second term. The Social Democrat Geraldo Alckmin competed against him . In the first round of the presidential election on October 1, 2006, Lula narrowly missed an absolute majority with 48.6% of the vote. He had to face his challenger, Geraldo Alckmin, in a second ballot. Heloísa Helena came in third with 6.8% of the vote. Lula won most of the votes in northeastern Brazil, where the social programs introduced during his tenure were beginning to take effect. In his home region, however, Lula suffered heavy losses.

President Lula on June 4, 2005 in Diadema / São Bernardo do Campo at a ceremony for the new housing units financed from the federal aid programs. In São Bernardo do Campo, Volkswagen and Daimler also produce commercial vehicles for export.

In the runoff election on October 29, 2006, Lula was confirmed in office. With 61% he was well ahead of his challenger Geraldo Alckmin (39%). Above all, it was the poorer parts of the population of the north and northeast of Brazil who remained loyal to Lula. The number of those who live below the poverty line is said to have decreased from 40 to 20 percent during Lula's first term in office.

Lula's Inauguration (2007)

After two terms in a row, Lula was constitutionally prohibited from running again in the 2010 presidential election. His proposed PT candidate, Dilma Rousseff , was elected to succeed him . On January 1, 2011, he handed over the presidency to her.

BRIC Summit 2010 in Brasília - Dmitri Medvedev , Lula, Hu Jintao and Manmohan Singh
President Lula in the Companhia Brasileira de Aluminio (CBA) factory, accompanied by company employees

Prosecution

As a result of Operation Lava Jato , a lawsuit was also brought against Lula.

Investigations

In April 2013, the Brazilian Public Prosecutor's Office started investigations against Lula in connection with the so-called Mensalão scandal . Between 2003 and 2005, during Lula's first term in office, his Labor Party is said to have bought its approval of Lula da Silva's policies by paying members of the Brazilian parliament in cash. At the end of 2012, 25 politicians, lawyers and entrepreneurs were found guilty of participating in the scandal. Lula had always said she didn't know anything about the payments. The businessman Marcos Valério , sentenced to 40 years in prison, accuses him of being involved in the scandal himself.

In April 2015, investigations into Lula on suspicion of corruption began. He was accused of having campaigned as president to ensure that the construction company Odebrecht received lucrative public works contracts in other countries ( Ghana , Angola , Cuba , Dominican Republic ). In return, he is said to have received payments from Odebrecht. Several Odebrecht CEOs were arrested in June 2016. The company was accused of paying bribes the equivalent of approximately US $ 230 million to various politicians.

Lula in June 2015

On March 4, 2016, Lula da Silva's house was searched by 200 federal police officers as part of Operation Aletheia ( Operação Aletheia , 24th phase of Operation Lava Jato ) . He was arrested and taken to a police station for questioning. The house of his son Fábio Luís Lula da Silva was also the target of the searches. On March 10, 2016, the São Paulo prosecutor announced that an indictment had been brought against Lula da Silva. President Dilma Rousseff then appointed Lula quasi-Prime Minister on March 16, 2016, which was widely seen as an attempt to give him immunity from impending prosecution and arrest. The appointment was canceled by the Brazilian Supreme Court on March 19, 2017 on the grounds that it was only made to give Lula da Silva impunity.

At the end of July 2016, it became known that a court in Brasília had accepted the prosecution's indictment against Lula for allegedly obstructing the ongoing investigation into the Petrobras corruption affair. Lula allegedly took part in an attempt to silence a witness to the corruption scandal.

Condemnation

On July 12, 2017, Lula was sentenced to nine years and six months in prison for corruption by the judge Sérgio Moro . He was found guilty of having received the equivalent of almost US $ 1.1 million in the form of construction work in his apartment from the Odebrecht company in return for brokered business contacts. Lula appealed against it and initially remained at large until the decision was made. He denied all charges, and his supporters spoke of a politically motivated process designed to deter him from running for the presidency again in the 2018 elections.

The appeals court unanimously upheld the conviction on January 24, 2018. It also increased the prison sentence to twelve years and one month, in line with the demands of the prosecution in the second trial. According to Brazilian law, Lula is therefore not eligible. Lula had the opportunity to challenge this judgment in even higher courts. He announced that he would run despite the appeal conviction.

At the beginning of April 2018, the Supreme Court rejected Lula's application by six votes to five to remain at large until the end of his appeal proceedings. The verdict has not yet become final as Lula has further appeals. A short time later, an arrest warrant was issued against Lula. He should report to the police in the southern Brazilian city of Curitiba by the afternoon of April 6, 2018 . Lula let this deadline pass and instead stayed protected by supporters in a union building in São Paulo. It wasn't until a day later that Lula surrendered to justice. He was immediately transported to Curitiba, where he was to serve his twelve-year prison sentence at the headquarters of the federal police. Despite the prison sentence, representatives of Lula's party announced that they would hold on to his renewed presidential candidacy in the elections scheduled for October 2018.

On July 8, 2018, a judge ordered the provisional release of Lula as long as the appeal process that he had initiated was not completed. This judgment was reversed by the court president, leaving Lula in custody as of July 9, 2018.

On April 23, 2019, the Supreme Court reduced his sentence to eight years and ten months. Meanwhile, on February 6, 2019, another twelve year and eleven month sentence was added.

Lula told the support of world leaders - to its visitors in prison in Curitiba included the former President of Uruguay , José Mujica , the former president of Colombia , Ernesto Samper , former Prime Minister of Spain Jose Luis Zapatero and former President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz made Germany . The linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky called Lula "one of the most important political prisoners of our time" during his visit. Lula is being isolated in custody so that the “cold coup”, which began with the dismissal of Lula's successor Dilma Rousseff, can continue.

Presidential nomination 2018

In May 2017, Lula announced that he would run for president in the 2018 elections in Brazil . Despite his final conviction on appeal, which prohibits running for political office, Lula was elected as his party's official presidential candidate by a meeting of delegates on August 4, 2018. In mid-August 2018, PT had Lula included in the official electoral register, which led to complaints from Attorney General Raquel Dodge and a number of right-wing politicians. The Supreme Electoral Court had to decide on his candidacy by September 17, 2018.

The United Nations Human Rights Committee called on the Brazilian government to respect Lula's political and civil rights and to allow him to run in the presidential election in October. Lula should not be excluded from the election as a candidate as long as he has not exhausted all legal possibilities to proceed against his conviction. As a signatory to the international convention on civil rights, Brazil was obliged to follow the advice of the committee. Accordingly, despite his imprisonment, he should have been given access to the media and participate in the televised debates of the presidential candidates via Skype. But the still incumbent President Michel Temer declared the UN's assessment to be non-binding and denied Lula any campaigning activity. At this point in time, poll results predicted Lula's election victory by a large margin over all other competitors if he ran.

On August 31, 2018, the Supreme Electoral Court ruled that Lula was not allowed to run for election. On September 11, 2018, Lula then declared that he would not stand and support the candidate Fernando Haddad, who was subsequently nominated by the PT . Shortly before the presidential election , the Supreme Electoral Court decided that for "technical reasons" Lula was not allowed to exercise his constitutional right to vote in the October 7, 2018 elections.

In June 2019, the investigative magazine The Intercept Brasil reported that the investigators entrusted with the anti-corruption investigation into Lava Jato and the coroner Sérgio Moro had conspired to prevent Lula from participating in the 2018 presidential election in Brazil . The Guardian newspaper quoted Carlos Melo, professor of political science at the Insper Business School in São Paulo: “It's like preventing the other team from playing. It's like they decided to play the ball alone ”. The division between prosecutors and judges also applies in Brazil. Moro was appointed Minister of Justice by the newly elected President Jair Bolsonaro after the election . At first it was still controversial whether there was an agreement with the right-wing conservative ex-military before the election. Hacked cell phone data and Telegram text messages from Judge Moro with the prosecutors, which were leaked to the disclosure platform The Intercept , showed that the entire case against Lula was a farce.

release

Following the revelations, the Supreme Court resumed Lula's release. On November 7, 2019, after 580 days in detention, he was finally released for the time being. The Supreme Court Justice Leopoldo de Arruda Raposo (Superior Tribunal de Justiça (STJ)) suspended the pending proceedings. Shortly before his release, Lula posted a video showing him exercising. Lula was cheered by thousands of activists as he stepped out of the gate of the police headquarters at the side of his lawyers, family members and the leader of the Workers' Party (PT), Gleisi Hoffmann . He announced that he wanted to continue the fight for the Brazilians. There were spontaneous celebrations across the country. He stated, “I go here without hatred. At 74 years of age, there is only room in my heart for love, because love will triumph in this land. I want to say to Minister Moro: you did not arrest a man, you tried to kill an idea. But this idea doesn't go away and I want to keep fighting for it. "

Annulment of the judgments

On March 8, 2021, the Brazilian Supreme Court overturned four corruption judgments against Lula. The Supreme Court argued that the court in Curitiba, southern Brazil, which had brought all the trials against Lula, had no jurisdiction. The cases would have to be restarted by a federal court in the capital Brasília . The Brazilian attorney general announced that it would immediately appeal the decision. The reversal of the judgments has, among other things, the consequence that Lula could theoretically run in the presidential election scheduled for 2022 . Opinion polls gave him realistic chances against the incumbent Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro . The latter accused the Supreme Court of bias in a comment. On March 23, 2021, the Supreme Court ruled that the former federal judge Sergio Moro was partial or biased in the trial against Lula and overturned all of his judgments against him. In April the overturning of the judgments was upheld by the Supreme Court plenary. It has not yet been decided whether the cases will go to the judiciary in Brasília or São Paulo.

Awards

Movie

  • On the Edge of Democracy , 113-minute documentary film by Petra Costa (Brazil 2019). This Netflix film highlights Lula de Silva's rise from union leader to president and the impeachment of his successor.
  • In the 2009 documentary South of the Border by Oliver Stone , Lula da Silva is interviewed alongside other government presidents of Latin America.
  • The feature film Lula, o Filho do Brasil (2009) documents Lula's life up to the death of his mother.

literature

  • John D. French: Lula and His Politics of Cunning: From Metalworker to President of Brazil. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 2020, ISBN 978-1-4696-5576-5 .
  • Steve Ellner: Latin America's Pink Tide: Breakthroughs and Shortcomings . Rowman & Littlefield, 2020, ISBN 9781538125632

Web links

Commons : Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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predecessor Office successor
Fernando Henrique Cardoso President of Brazil
2003-2011 		Dilma Rousseff
personal data
SURNAME Silva, Luiz Inácio Lula da
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lula; Lula da Silva, Luiz Inácio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian politician and president
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Caetés , Pernambuco , Brazil