Lula to run for president in Brazil
Brazil Lula, who has already held the presidency twice, is currently serving a more than 12-year prison sentence on charges of money laundering and corruption. He is working with lawyers to appeal his case to the Superior Court of Justice.
“If I accept the idea of not being a candidate, I will be assuming that I committed a crime,” Lula said in a letter to fellow politician Senator Gleisi Hoffmann. “I did not commit any crime, so I am a candidate until the truth appears and the media, judges and prosecutors show the crime I committed.”
The politician was jailed in early April after being convicted of taking bribes in exchange for influencing NOC Petrobras to award contracts to construction firm OAS.
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