Meanwhile, his political rights restored, Lula da Silva has shrewdly returned to the international stage, on a tour planned by his former foreign minister, Celso Amorim. In November 2021, he was received with the honors of a head of state in Brussels, Berlin, Whatsapp Mobile Number List Madrid and Paris. Lula thrilled students at Sciences Po University in Paris, as well as members of the European Parliament in Brussels, with his promises to rebuild Brazil, fight hunger and stop the destruction of the Amazon, but avoided further analysis. on how to heal the wounds caused by Bolsonaro, or reduce Brazil's enormous social deficit.
“I can help the poor in the country. I can help them work, eat and go to university », he summed up in an interview twenty. On another occasion, on his tour, he listed the three priorities that, in his opinion, should be part of the progressive agenda in any Whatsapp Mobile Number List country: reducing inequality, addressing the "climate issue" and Whatsapp Mobile Number List not clear how the veteran leader of Brazilian progressivism plans to transform these priorities into public policies, with what resources, or who would pay the bill, now that the boom in raw materials sold to China is already just a memory. And so far, he has avoided giving details of how he plans to tax Brazil's rich with a possible far-reaching tax reform.
It is too early to say whether the precautionary strategy will work: there are still several months to go, and in Brazilian politics that is an eternity. At the beginning of 1994, during his second presidential candidacy, Lula was the favorite in all the polls, but in Whatsapp Mobile Number List November Cardoso was elected in the first round. What is certain today is that the charisma of the former trade unionist and his prudent reformism without political radicalization will be essential to decide, once again, the electoral result. If he wins, governing and rebuilding Brazil will be a much more complex challenge.