Fortunately for Lula’s rivals, for most of the last year, the former union leader’s name has rarely been out of the news in connection with the ongoing revelations emerging from the Petrobras investigation.
This was yet another illustration of the popularity of the man who led the country between 2002 and 2010, lifting 30 million Brazilians out of poverty during that time.
Now all that stands in the way of the PT’s demise is a 71-year-old man.
After Rousseff was impeached and left office in late August, Lula is back in the news, reinforcing the former president’s arguments that he is the target of a smear campaign led by powerful, behind-the-scenes forces in cahoots with the media.
In July, a nationwide survey showed that Lula would win the presidential elections of 2018 if he stood in the contest, as he had suggested he might.
Fuente: http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/09/22/inenglish/1474547480_677252.html
