Reinaldo: Lula will be convicted without evidence and will not be a candidate.
A columnist predicts that, even without evidence, the TRF-4 (Regional Federal Court of the 4th Region) will uphold Moro's decision to convict Lula, meaning the Workers' Party member will not be a candidate in 2018; the columnist also states that a candidacy by Luciano Huck would be a fiasco and that the presenter's presence in the election would be the "shortest path" for the left to return to power.
247 - Em your column this FridayReinaldo Azevedo harshly criticized a potential presidential candidacy of TV host Luciano Huck.
"Luciano running for President is the shortest path to a plebiscite with a certain outcome and the return of the left to power. 'Has Reinaldo gone mad?' No! They asked Cassandra that before bringing a Trojan horse into Troy. I'm just helping Luciano help Brazil."
If he runs for President, voters will be asked to say "yes" or "no" to TV Globo. And the "no" vote will win, as it already does today," he writes.
The columnist also predicts that Lula will not make it to the polls.
"Lula will not be a candidate. The TRF-4 will convict him. I already wrote that it will be without evidence. Sergio Moro's fellow judges wouldn't let their "Jedi" down. It doesn't matter. Candidate or not, imprisoned or not (and, in that case, it would be worse), the resurrection of the PT member, as I predicted in this column on February 17th, has already happened."
"Even though he himself isn't the PT's (Workers' Party) candidate, Datafolha indicates that the PT leader transfers such a large number of votes that his chosen successor, given the fragmentation of the anti-PT sentiment, would compete in the second round. So, what's certain? Lula would be elected today if he ran. What's probable? The candidate he endorsed would go to the final stage. But against whom? Well, there's neither certainty nor probability there. Only the immense sea of uncertainty. This, in itself, attests to the quality of the work of Rodrigo Janot, his valiant followers, and the uncouth right wing."