Dilma on TV 247: "What they are trying to do to Lula, they will not succeed"
The deposed president describes her impeachment, in an interview with TV 247, as "the first act of the coup," and emphasizes that "we can catalog several acts"; "Now the peak of the second stage of the coup is how to prevent Lula from being a candidate for president of the Republic if he indisputably leads the electoral process today," she states; "How to do that? I think we are heading towards a stalemate, and this stalemate will be resolved with the population's awareness that this situation is absurd," she concludes; watch
247 – President Dilma Rousseff, deposed by the coup, declared in an exclusive interview with TV 247 last Tuesday, the 31st, that preventing former president Lula from running for office would be "the culmination of the second stage of the coup," which began with her impeachment. But she believes it will be very difficult to carry it out.
She emphasized that "the coup is a process, and the first act is my impeachment, but it didn't stop there." "We can catalog several acts; for example, the constitutional amendment on the spending cap is a coup against education, culture, and the Brazilian people. Selling pre-salt oil wells for an insignificant price continues the coup," she enumerated.
"Now, the crux of the second stage of the coup is how to prevent Lula from running for president of the Republic when he indisputably leads the electoral process today. He has double the support of the second-place candidate, triple that of the third, and so on. And he wins in the first round. How do you do that?" he asks.
"I think we are heading towards a stalemate, and this stalemate will be resolved when the population realizes that this situation is absurd," Dilma assesses.
According to the deposed president, "it's absurd that a president without a single vote count is in the Presidential Palace, exercising the function of president that doesn't belong to him, a usurper, and at the same time, a person who was elected twice, who unequivocally has a proven intention to vote, cannot be a candidate."
Regarding the 2018 election, she assesses that "one of the effects of the coup was the destruction of the PSDB, and the other is the creation of a far-right alternative." "Now, are they going to accept a far-right alternative to lead a country of 208 million inhabitants? A person who advocates torture, dictatorship, and torturers...?", she added, referring to Jair Bolsonaro.
Check out this excerpt from his speech: