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The right, the big media, and the elites have created this propaganda that Lula, the elected president, is only the lesser of two evils. But, as I said, it's just propaganda. Lula is not perfect, but his political and personal trajectory is nothing short of legendary.
He started his political career as a union man after losing a finger in a steel mill at 17 years old. He ran a worker's party during the military dictatorship, was arrested more than once for fighting for worker's right and democracy. After democracy was reinstated here, he ran for presidency in 1989, and lost to a typical right-wing rich playboy, whose campaign involved the propaganda of "Lula is communist, he will take your savings, he will put strangers into your house". He lost, and the guy who won, Collor, took people's savings himself and had to be impeached out of power after 2 years. His first two mandates were from 2003 to 2010, and he helped 33 million Brazilians out of hunger, and also grew the economy from half a trillion US dollars to 2.5 trillion US dollars. His government coasted through the 2008 global economic crisis. Among many other positive achievements.
But during his government, he also gave free rein and power to the federal police to investigate corruption, and there were multiple corruption scandals. Not because there wasn't corruption before, it's just that previous governments wouldn't investigate it, so people knew, but it never made arrests and the news.
The right has used those corruption scandals (that also involved Lula's party) to slander Lula, but he himself, neither his direct successor, Dilma, have ever been found guilty of any real corruption.
In contrast, his adversary bought multiple mansions in live cash (yes, cash), and has been a close associate of three guys who are involved in a money laundering scheme for drug dealers that has laundered more than a billion dollars. Plus his father, president from 2018 to 2022, literally had a plan for a coup printed inside the drawer of his fucking desk in the presidential office in case he lost the election, with plans to assassinate several of the supreme justices of Brazil, and his adversary, Lula himself.