Marina Silva supports Lula da Silva in the October 2 elections. The support was formalized this Monday, the 12th, at a meeting in São Paulo and represents the reunion of two of the most popular politicians in Brazil after more than a decade of separation.
“I independently express my support for the candidate and future president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva,” said the environmentalist, former minister and candidate three times, in 2010, 2014 and 2018.
“I understand that at this crucial moment in our history, the one who has the best and best conditions to attack Bolsonaro and the evil seed of Bolsonarism implemented in the heart of our society, Brazilian brothers, the lives of people for thinking takes, is different, is your candidacy”.
Marina’s support is linked to the incorporation of an environmental agenda into the Workers’ Party candidate’s government program, including the creation of a national authority to tackle climate change.
“More than maintaining this personal relationship, it is a political reunion in the field of principles and values of the field of democracy, through which we commit ourselves to confront the serious problem of climate change through a new development model for us. country,” he added.
The former president replied that his government program is a plan of goals and they must be fulfilled every day. “The Marina program is a proposal that can be fully put into practice. It is not a proposal for a month or a year, but it is a proposal to work on and pursue”.
For Lula, “in politics we make decisions from time to time that make us follow certain paths and we are not always on that path, but there are also moments in history when we meet again”.
Marina Silva served as environment minister in Lula’s governments from 2003 to 2008 until she left the then president in 2009. In 2010, she took on the PT candidate, Dilma Rousseff, and the PSDB candidate. José Serra, who took third place with more than 19% of the vote. In 2014, she went from candidate for vice president from Eduardo Campos to Planalto, after Campos’ death in a plane crash during the campaign, gaining 21% of the vote and again third place. In 2018 it did not go beyond 1% and seventh place.
Source: DN
