As Brazil’s largest leftist party gathers to plan the future, a figure that has dominated its past looms ever larger: Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, center, and former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff raise their arms during the Workers' Party 7th Congress, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Friday, Nov. 22, 2019. Da Silva is the unquestioned star of the PT 3-day party convention. Many still think he could be the party's standard-bearer once again in 2022 - when he'll be a 77-year-old cancer survivor who is now barred from seeking office due to a corruption conviction.
“Today I feel much stronger than the day I surrendered to the federal police,” a raucous da Silva said Friday night. “I am more willing to fight for this country than in any other moment. You will see me traveling around this country, not only making their lives hell, but also defending the Brazilian people who don’t deserve to experience what they experiencing.”
But Raul Pont, a member of the Workers’ Party and former mayor of Porto Alegre, thinks it is “too soon” to rule da Silva out of the presidential ticket. Still, many on the left still see him as the only politician who can today organize the opposition to far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who last year ended the Workers’ Party string of victory in four consecutive elections.“I am the biggest polarizer of this country. What I want is to polarize. They don’t know what it is to face a 74-year-old passionate man,” he said.
Da Silva’s Workers’ Party successor, Dilma Rousseff was impeached in 2016 when former coalition members turned against her. And the Workers’ Party candidate in the last election, Fernando Haddad, lost with less than 45 percent of the vote.
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