Favorite of the presidential election next October against the outgoing president, Jair Bolsonaro, the former leftist leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, says Lula, does not intend to rely solely on the popular classes to win the ballot.
The one who has forged an image of “father of the poor” thanks to the important social programs launched when he was in power (2003-2010) is indeed campaigning “to get closer to the economic elite” and finance of the country, observes a newspaper columnist The globe. An elite that gives “signs of fatigue with bravado” of the current far-right head of state, whom she had nevertheless supported in 2018.
Invited this August 9 to the headquarters of the Federation of Industries of São Paulo (Fiesp), headquarters of the employers of the megalopolis, Lula held a speech at the “your conciliator”promising to “restore calm after four years of Bolsonarist turmoil”. And if he hasavoided detailing” his economic program, the former trade unionist assured his interlocutors that he “listen to contractors and workers before making decisions.”
A pragmatic politician
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