Will Lula return to the Brazilian political stage again?
CGTN
Next year Brazil may get the election that it was denied in 2018. This week one of its former presidents, Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva, moved a step closer to having his political rights restored to him. He lost them in the runup to the last time round, when he was prosecuted and convicted for corruption and money laundering through involvement in the "Operation Carwash" scandal.
Lula's path towards next year's presidential election was opened on March 8 when a judge in Curitiba concluded that the court which prosecuted Lula in that state had not had jurisdiction to do so. It now goes to the Supreme Court, which if it upholds the appeal, could lead to a retrial. Lula's appeal rests on the fact that the judge who investigated Lula did not do so impartially.
