Luiz
Inácio Lula da Silva
Part
3 - I Am a Candidate – Again!
It is to
end the suffering of the people that I am again running for
President.
I take
on this mission because I have a great responsibility with Brazil and
because Brazilians have the right to vote freely for a project of
more solidarity, a more just and a sovereign country, persevering in
the project of Latin American integration.
I am a
candidate because I sincerely believe that the Electoral Court will
be coherent with its judicial precedents, since 2002, not bowing to
the blackmail of exception only to hurt my right and the right of
voters to choose who represents them best.
I ran
many times during my career, but this race is different: it is my
life’s commitment. Those who had the privilege of seeing Brazil
advance on behalf of the poorest, after centuries of exclusion and
abandonment, cannot sit out during the most difficult time for our
people.
I know
that my candidacy represents hope, and we will take it to the final
consequences, because we have the strength of the people at our side.
We have
the right to dream again, after the nightmare that was imposed on us
by the 2016 coup.
They
lied to overthrow the legitimately elected President Dilma Rousseff.
They lied saying that the country would improve if the Workers’
Party was ousted from government; that there would be more jobs and
more development. They lied to impose the program that was defeated
at the polls in 2014. They lied to destroy the project of eradicating
misery which we put in place under my government. They lied to give
away the nation’s wealth and to favor the economic and financial
powers, in a scandalous betrayal of the people’s will manifested
clearly and unequivocally in 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014.
The hour
of truth is coming.
I want
to be president of Brazil once again because I have already proved
that it is possible to build a better Brazil for our people. We
proved that the country can grow for the benefit of all when the
government places the workers and the poorest at the center of the
concerns, and does not become a slave to the interests of the rich
and powerful. And we proved that only the inclusion of millions of
poor people can make the economy grow and recover.
We
govern for the people and not for the market. It is the opposite of
what the government of our opponents, at the service of financiers
and multinationals, who abolished the historic rights of workers,
reduced real wages, cut off investments in health and education, and
is destroying programs like Bolsa Familia, Minha Casa, Minha Vida,
Pronaf, Luz Para Todos, Prouni and Fies, among many actions aimed at
social justice.
I dream
of being president of Brazil to end the suffering of those who do not
have money anymore to buy gas, who now have to use wood for cooking
or, even worse, use alcohol and become victims of serious accidents
and burns. This is one of the cruelest setbacks caused by the policy
of destruction of Petrobras and of our national sovereignty, led by
PSDB supporters who backed the 2016 coup.
Petrobras
was not created to generate gains for Wall Street speculators in New
York, but to ensure oil self-sufficiency in Brazil at prices
compatible with the popular economy. Petrobras must be Brazilian
again. You can be certain that we are going to end this tale of
selling its assets. It will no longer be hostage to oil
multinationals. It will once again play a strategic role in the
country’s development, including in directing the pre-salt
resources to education, our passport to the future.
You can
also be sure that we will prevent the privatization of Eletrobrás,
Banco do Brasil and Caixa, the emptying of the BNDES and of all the
tools available to the country to promote development and social
welfare.
I dream
of being the president of a country where the judge pays more
attention to the Constitution and less to the headlines.
Where
rule of law is the rule, without measures of exception.
I dream
of a country where democracy prevails over anyone’s discretion,
media monopoly, prejudice and discrimination.
I dream
of being the president of a country where everyone has rights and
nobody has privileges. A Country where everyone can have three meals
a day again; where children can attend school, where everyone has the
right to work for dignified wages and with the protection of the law.
A country in which every rural worker has again access to land to
produce, with finance and technical assistance.
A
country where people will once again have confidence in the present
and hope for the future. And where for this very reason is once again
respected internationally, promotes Latin American integration and
cooperation with Africa once again, and exercises a sovereign
position in the international dialogues on trade and the environment,
for peace and friendship amongst peoples.
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