Sputnik.png Lula da Silva Ready to Run for President in 2018 Sputnik, Moscow, from Mexico City, 21 May 2016 Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva could put forward his candidature in the 2018 presidential elections. Speaking in an interview with TeleSUR TV, the former president said that he would run for president "just to prevent social achievements from being destroyed in Brazil." He also criticized the appointment of Michel Temer as Brazil's interim president and claimed that "Dilma [Rousseff] is only suspended on a political whim." According to Lula, the governments of the Workers' Party, of which both Lula and Rousseff are members, has managed to get 30 million people out of poverty in the last 12 years. Brazil's Senate voted 55-22 earlier this month to start impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff after she was accused of concealing the country's budget deficit ahead of the 2014 re-election. Lula da Silva has described the impeachment trial of his successor Rousseff as abuse of democracy. Rousseff has called the impeachment process "a coup." Rousseff has been suspended from office for 180 days, pending trial. Michel Temer, who had been Brazil's vice president since 2011, is assuming presidency during that period. From: http://sputniknews.com/latam/20160521/1040008471/brazil-lula-da-silva-ready- president-run.html -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
