Business leaders, artists, lawyers, and intellectuals launch manifesto calling for Lula's election in the first round.

247 - A group comprised of prominent business leaders, artists, intellectuals, and lawyers released a manifesto on Monday calling for national unity in support of the first-round election of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. "Many of us were and still are critical, disagreeing with events and positions he has taken in the past, but we are looking to the future, and there is no doubt that history is making Lula represent the alternative that Brazil should embrace in this 2022 plebiscite," the text states. Read the full text and see the list of signatories:

More than electing a president, in 2022 Brazil will hold a plebiscite between continuing the disaster or resuming democratic and institutional stability, ending denialism, restoring social empathy, and resuming sustainable development. There is no reason to postpone the election to a second round, risking the uncertainties arising from secondary disputes, and especially the risks of acts outside the Constitution. Therefore, we appeal to all democrats, candidates and their voters, to unite in the first round with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Many of us were and still are critical, disagreeing with events and positions he has taken in the past, but we are looking to the future, and there is no doubt that history is making Lula represent the alternative that Brazil should embrace in this 2022 plebiscite. At the same time, the successes of his two governments and his willingness to build a broad programmatic front give us confidence that he is prepared for the task of pacifying, governing, and rebuilding Brazil.

It's Lula in the first round to pull Brazil out of the mess we're in and Brazilians out of the deep abyss we've been thrown into.

Movement for Brazil

Alder Teixeira - writer and Professor (State University of Ceará)

Antônio Carlos de Almeida Castro – KAKAY - lawyer

Armando Raggio – physician, public health researcher

Arnaldo Santos - journalist and political scientist

Auto Filho - professor at the State University of Ceará.

Benicio Viero Schmidt - sociologist, professor at UnB

Bernardo Ricupero - professor at USP

Boris Fausto – Historian

Carol Proner - Professor of Human Rights

Celina Roitman - microbiologist and public health researcher

Chico Buarque - composer and writer

Christian Lynch, - professor and political scientist

Cristina Inoue - Professor at Radboud University (Netherlands)

Cristovam Buarque

Dinamam Tuxá - Indigenous leader and lawyer.

Evandro Pertence - lawyer

Fernanda Sobral - sociologist, professor emerita at UnB (University of Brasília)

Francisco José Teixeira – Professor at the Regional University of Cariri – Ceará

Gabriela Gastal

Guto Gomes - Socio-environmental activist

Hélio Doyle - journalist.

Helio Jose - former senator

Hussein Kalout - Professor at Harvard University

Iara Pietricovsky - Anthropologist, Co-director of the Brazilian Association of NGOs – Abong

Isaac Roitman - Professor and full member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences

Lia Zanotta, anthropologist, professor at UnB.

Luiz Cruz Lima – Professor at the State University of Ceará

Luiz Eduardo Soares – anthropologist and writer

José Eli da Veiga - professor at USP

Magno Lavigne - licensed president of UGT Bahia

Marcelo Carvalho - president of UGT BA

Márcio Santili - former federal congressman and member of the Constituent Assembly.

Marcos Woortmann – political scientist

Marco Aurélio de Carvalho - coordinator of the Prerogatives Group

Maurício Rands - lawyer and law professor

Mauro Dutra - businessman

Milton Seligman - former Minister of Justice

Moises Balestro – professor at UnB

Nathaly Beghin - economist

Paulo Dalla Nora Macedo - Vice President of Política Viva

Pedro Ivo Batista - Environmentalist and coordinator of the Terrazul Alternative Association

Philip Yang, - urban planner, founder of URBEM

Randolph Rodrigues

Ricardo Abramovay - professor at USP

Ricardo Patah - lawyer, business administrator, president of the São Paulo shopkeepers' union and of the National UGT (General Union of Workers).

Roberto de Figueiredo Caldas - lawyer

Romi Bencke, - Pastor of Lutheran orientation.

Rosangela Lyra, president and founder of Política Viva

Sepúlveda Pertence - jurist

Tito Barros Leal - professor at the Regional University of Vale do Acaraú, Ceará

Ursula Vidal - Secretary of Culture of Pará

Wellington Almeida - political scientist

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