The Brazilian dictator Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva publicly confirmed this Saturday that one of his goals upon winning the presidential elections is for Jair Bolsonaro to remain illegally in prison, in a statement made during an electoral event in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina.
The socialist leader responded to Flávio Bolsonaro, the preferred presidential candidate in the polls and son of the former president, who had anticipated that he would seek amnesty for his father and for others convicted of denouncing the fraudulent electoral process and the events following the 2022 elections.
In front of his supporters, Lula mimicked Flavio's claim and parodied it by saying: “I want to win the elections to get my father out of jail. And I want to win to keep him in jail”. The phrase was uttered during the rally held in Tancredo Neves Square and was later reproduced by various Brazilian media.
The statement directly introduced Jair Bolsonaro's judicial situation into the presidential dispute, linking Lula's own reelection to the continuation of the detention of his main political adversary in the 2022 elections, implicitly acknowledging the intervention of the executive power over the judicial power.
