The former president of Brazil and presidential candidate for the Workers’ Party (PT), Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, said on Wednesday that the military are more responsible than the current president, Jair Bolsonaro, and would not allow a coup in the elections. .
These nonsense that Bolsonaro talks about do not have the support of the military in active service, of the high command. He can only be considered the supreme boss when he is serious, he talks about things and respects the institutions,” Lula da Silva said in an interview with the UOL.
“The [Bolsonaro] he says ‘my army’, but it is not his (…) So, how can we think of a coup? I don’t believe in a coup, I don’t think the Armed Forces think about that. If you start playing with democracy, you will pay dearly,” he added.
The former Brazilian president also stated that he does not intend to run for re-election if he emerges victorious in the presidential elections scheduled for October 2, which would break the trend that all the heads of state in the country have adopted after re-election. the rule was approved, in the first term of former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
Lula da Silva suggests that he will not try another mandate if he defeats Jair Bolsonaro
I want to fulfill the best term that I have done in my life. And I want to work in four years for 40″, highlighted Lula da Silva.
In the most electoral aspect, the progressive leader defended a change in the policy of readjustment of the minimum wage in Brazil, which would vary annually based on the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and not based on inflation, as is currently the case.
Likewise, Lula da Silva defended that will reopen some of the closed ministries by the successors -Michel Temer and Bolsonaro himself-, highlighting among them the Ministries of Culture and Fisheries.
Last week, the PT made official the presidential candidacy headed by Lula da Silva, who will have former São Paulo governor Geraldo Alckmin as his vice-presidential candidate in the October elections.
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This is the sixth time that Lula da Silva has run for the presidency of Brazil, having won in 2002 and 2006 and defeated in 1989, 1994 and 1998.
Source: Observadora
