The former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva He will be awarded in November in France by the specialized magazine “Politique internationale” for “embodying” the “hope” of his compatriots “disappointed” with Jair Bolsonaro, his director told AFP.
“Magazine “International politics“He chose to award the 2021 Political Courage Award to the Brazilian Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva,” said the director of the publication Patrick Wajsman. The delivery will take place on November 17 in Paris.
This quarterly magazine specialized in diplomacy justified its decision in the “hope that embodies again [Lula] in the eyes of a large majority of his compatriots, disappointed by the presidency [del actual mandatario Jair] Bolsonaro”.
The publication also highlights “the exemplary tenacity” of the former leftist president “in the face of political and judicial persecution,” which was “rewarded with the decision of the Supreme Federal Court to annul his sentences.”
His presidency between 2003 and 2010 was also “marked by the will to promote the racial and social equality in his country, “allowing” 30 million Brazilians to get out of poverty, “he added.
The head of the Workers Party (PT) said last month that it will define at the beginning of next year if it launches its candidacy for the presidential elections in October 2022 against the far-right Bolsonaro.
Lula, a favorite in the polls, may be a candidate, since he regained his political rights in March after the cancellation of the corruption convictions handed down against him. One of them put him in jail for almost 18 months, between 2018 and 2019.
“The victory of Joe Biden [en Estados Unidos] It shows that people are sick of the madness, of the xenophobia and fascism, “Lula assures Gaspard Estrada, Sciences Po’s Latin America expert, in an interview on” Politique Internationale. “
This magazine, founded in 1978, has already awarded the Prize for Political Courage to Pope John Paul II, former Egyptian President Anwar al Sadat and former South African head of state Frederik De Klerk.
Lula da Silva for his part, he would grant this award “to the Brazilian people.” “In particular to the comrades who remained by my side when I was imprisoned in Curitiba,” he stressed in the interview.
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx