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With Lula behind bars, Brazilian democracy is still at stake
Former president of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
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SINCE a parliamentary coup took place in 2016 against elected president Dilma Rousseff, Brazilian democracy has been under threat.
October’s presidential election offers a way out of the political crisis, but the country’s most popular candidate has been arrested without material evidence against him. Brazilian democracy is still at stake.
Former president Lula da Silva, known as Lula, was arrested in April after being charged with receiving a “bribe” from construction company OAS in the form of an apartment.
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