Luiz
Inácio Lula da Silva
Part
4 - Free and Democratic Elections
We know
the way to carry out these dreams. Today it goes through the holding
of free and democratic elections, with the participation of all
political forces, with no rules of exception to prevent just one
candidate.
Only
then will we have a government with legitimacy to face great
challenges, that can dialogue with all sectors of the nation
supported by the popular vote. It is this mission that I am taking on
by accepting my nomination as presidential candidate of the Workers’
Party.
We have
demonstrated already that it is possible to make a government of
national appeasement, where which Brazil walks in the direction of
the Brazilians, especially the poorest and the workers.
My
government was one where the poor were included in the Union’s
budget, with more income distribution and less hunger; with more
health and less child mortality; with more respect and affirmation of
the rights of women, of blacks and of diversity, and with less
violence; with more education at all levels and fewer children out of
school; with more access to universities and technical education and
fewer young people excluded from the future; with more popular
housing and fewer occupancy conflicts in the cities; with more
settlements and land distribution and fewer conflicts of occupation
in the countryside; with more respect for the indigenous populations
and quilombolas, with more salary gains and guarantees for the rights
of workers, with more dialogue with unions, social movements and
business organizations and less social conflicts.
It was a
time of peace and prosperity, as we have never had before in history.
I
believe, from the bottom of my heart, that Brazil can be happy again.
And it can advance much more than we had already conquered together,
when the government was of the people.
In order
to achieve this goal, we must unite the democratic forces of all
Brazil, respecting the autonomy of the parties and the movements, but
always having as reference a project of more solidarity and a fairer
Country that will rescue the dignity and hope of our suffering
people. I am sure we will be together at the end of that path.
From
where I am, with the solidarity and energies that come from all
corners of Brazil and the world, I can assure you that I will
continue working to transform our dreams into reality. And so I am
preparing, with faith in God and a lot of confidence, for the day
when I will once again unite with the beloved Brazilian people.
Only, if
my life is taken, will this reunion not come to be.
And this
reunion will not happen only if my life is lacking.
See you
soon, my people.
Long
live Brazil! Long live Democracy! Long live the Brazilian people! •
Luiz
Inácio Lula da Silva
Curitiba,
June 8, 2018
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