On the night of 08/25, the former president and current leading candidate in the polls for the 2022 presidential elections in Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was in an interview with TV Globo's Jornal Nacional. The TV news presenters, Willian Bonner and Renata Vasconcelos, asked questions about the main interests of the electorate, such as: corruption, economy, political articulation, agribusiness and continuity of investment in the country.
Bonner asked at the first opportunity about corruption and how Lula in an eventual third term would prevent past mistakes from being repeated, the presenter also spoke about Lava Jato and stressed in the question that Lula owes nothing to justice.
The former president was perfect in his response when he stated that in his two governments, 2003 to 2006 and 2007 to 2010, several mechanisms were created to fight corruption that were scrapped and in some cases rendered useless by the Bolsonaro government, such as the Transparency Portal, Federal Police and the Financial Activities Control Council (COAF), among others.
“In my government, we strengthened the autonomy of the Federal Police (PF), we created several mechanisms to combat corruption and I never intervened in the PF as it happens today, I never changed a delegate because he was investigating a relative or friend of mine and I never used a decree of 100 years, to be a republican I need to let justice investigate, convict or exonerate”, said Lula.
Following the JN's agenda was economy, Lula recalled that when he assumed the presidency in 2002, he found the country broke, with 14% inflation and double-digit interest rates, 14 million unemployed, owing 35 billion to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). ), who visited Brazil every month giving advice on the economy and recalled that he solved everything, lowered inflation to below the 4% target, paid the IMF and loaned 15 billion to them and unemployment fell because opportunities were created for the people .
“It is not justified that more than 70% of the population is over-indebted, especially the female heads of the family, unlike the incompetent Bolsonaro who says he will keep the aid, but in the 2023 budget he did not put it and was against it since the time of the coronavirus pandemic. Covid19, wanted to allocate R$ 200.00, not accepted by congress, then offered R$ 400.00 and after a lot of confusion the national congress forced the approval of R$ 600.00, and only guaranteed money for the electoral period and payments they will only last until the end of the year, but I will keep the aid and bring the poor back to the Brazilian GDP".
Bonner tried to link to Lula the beginning of the crisis in 2015 of the Dilma government and Lula was direct “Bonner, when you leave the JN, you will understand what “dead king, post king” means”, Dilma had a fantastic first government and in the second she had to face the wrath of the defeated Aécio Neves (PSDB) and the president of the Federal Chamber, Eduardo Cunha (MDB), who worked against Dilma from the beginning to the end of her term, unlike the time of the president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso (PSDB), who there was Michel Temer (MDB), who acted so that the government at the time would not fall or have difficulty in approving proposals. If comrade Geraldo Alckmin (PSB) and I are elected, we will govern for the people and for that we will need to talk to everyone.
Lula says Bolsonaro doesn't rule anything
At that moment, Renata asked Lula if he would negotiate with the “centrão”, the answer was direct, we will have to talk to everyone, this is making politics, what we cannot do is having an elected congress with people who have no responsibility with the people, “so my friends, vote with the candidates who are supporting our ticket so that we have the governance necessary to make the changes we are going to make”.
O candidato enfatizou ainda que quando diz negociar com todos inclusive com o centrão, não significa ficar refém dele como Bolsonaro é hoje.
“Bolsonaro não manda em nada, quando os ministros precisam de algo do orçamento eles ligam para o presidente da câmara, Arthur Lira (PP), para pedir, já pensou numa coisa dessas?”.
A Renata sequenciou uma pergunta sobre o agronegócio, que segundo a repórter não apoia o Lula e ele respondeu lembrando que nenhum governo da história recente desse país fez mais pelo agronegócio que os governos do PT, existe alguns que não me apoiam por causa das politicas ambientais que criamos para proteger nossa biodiversidade que não deve ser desmatada e sim estudada para criar oportunidade e emprego para o povo brasileiro. Renata insiste na pergunta falando que o agronegócio quer proteger o meio ambiente também e Lula afirma, claro que sim, inclusive os que me apoiam são produtores sérios que exportam seus produtos e sabem da importância de preservar as águas e as matas para manterem a qualidade dos seus produtos, mas existe uma parte que quer queimar e desmatar”.
Para encerra Lula agradeceu aos repórteres pela entrevista e afirmou que juntamente com Alckmin vão mudar e preparar o Brasil para o futuro próximo e próspero e com oportunidades para todos.
“Eu não gosto de dizer que vou ganhar para governar, eu vou ganhar para cuidar do povo”, prometeu Lula.
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