Dilma: there was and will be no Plan B for the PT; we are not Lula's tormentors.
Dilma Rousseff stated in her speech at the 24th annual São Paulo Forum meeting in Havana, Cuba, this Sunday that there is no "plan B" for the presidential elections: "We don't have a plan B because Lula is innocent. We are not going to be Lula's executioners and remove him from the election."
247 - Former President Dilma Rousseff stated in her speech at the 24th annual São Paulo Forum meeting in Havana (Cuba) this Sunday (16) that there is no "plan B" for the presidential elections: "We don't have a plan B because Lula is innocent. We are not going to be Lula's executioners and remove him from the election."
At the event, which brings together left-wing, center-left parties and social movements from around the world in Cuba, Dilma stated that the opposition to the PT (Workers' Party) "cannot allow Lula to participate in the elections" because the former president "would win in the first round." The former president, however, affirmed that even imprisoned for over one hundred days, Lula continues to lead in the polls. "Lula in prison is the strongest presence in the Brazilian political landscape," she said. "We have to put Lula's project on the ballot," she stated.
The Workers' Party (PT) will register the former president's pre-candidacy on August 15th, the deadline set by the Electoral Court.
Dilma reiterated that Lula's imprisonment is the third phase of the "coup" that began with her impeachment in 2016. The former president recalled that a week ago, Lula was almost released by a decision of Judge Rogério Favreto of the 4th Regional Federal Court (TRF-4), which was prevented by an illegal maneuver by Sérgio Moro: "[Moro] committed a very serious crime by not complying with the court order and by not obeying the judicial hierarchy. They showed how far they are willing to go," she stated. "It was a judicial and political striptease, removing all the masks," she said.
Also in Cuba, the national president of the PT (Workers' Party), Senator Gleisi Hoffmann (PR), stated that the Judiciary has been acting politically to keep the former president imprisoned at the Federal Police headquarters in Curitiba. “100 days of Lula in prison. 100 days of injustice. What is the proof? What crime did Lula commit to be imprisoned? The attempt to release him based on fair and correct arguments has been frustrated. A significant part of the Judiciary has shown that it has a side in this dispute. It has politicized the process,” stated Gleisi, in a video released online (see...). here (on TV 247, or below). The leader reiterated that the party "will not give up" on the former president's candidacy.