An arrest warrant was issued against Lula

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Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has a few hours left before being taken to prison, as a judge gave him a deadline until Good Friday afternoon to surrender, issuing an arrest warrant against him.

His sworn enemy, the judge handling investigations into corruption cases, Sergio Mouros, was the one who issued Lula's arrest warrant on Good Thursday night.

In the document, the contents of which came to the attention of the French Agency, Mourou, citing "the office he held", states that the former head of state is given the opportunity to "voluntarily appear at the federal police headquarters in Curiciba in North Korea". , until 17:00 on Good Friday (local time • 23:00 Greek time).

The judge forbade "in any case" the "use of handcuffs" during the arrest of the former trade unionist who was twice elected president of the country and clarified that he should be taken to a "protected area" at the federal police headquarters, without coming into contact " with other detainees "so that" his moral or physical integrity is not endangered ".

Lula was on Maundy Thursday in Sao Paulo, about 400km from Curiciba, where Muro is based - the judge who convicted Lula at first instance in July, a decision upheld by an appeals court in mid-January.

Shortly after the warrant was issued, the Workers' Party (PT), founded by Lula in the 1980s, announced a "general mobilization" against his imprisonment.

His supporters gathered at the headquarters of the metal industry workers' union, just outside Sao Paulo, where Lula was expected.

The former head of state gave an interview to a well-known editor of political reporting in Brazil, Kennedy Allenkach. "Lula said that his imprisonment is something 'absurd' that Judge Mourou and those who wished to see him 'imprisoned one day' are obsessed," Allenkah said via Twitter.

In the early hours of Maundy Thursday, Brazil's Supreme Court rejected Lula's request to remain free until his legal remedies for his sentence of 12 years and one month in prison for bribery were exhausted. money laundering.

Lula, who faces six other corruption cases, said his conviction was politically motivated: he denounced the lack of evidence and spoke of a conspiracy to prevent him from winning the presidency for a third time in October.

Lula has stressed that his intention is to continue his election campaign behind bars. Theoretically, his law forbids him to be a candidate, after he was convicted by an appellate court, but the final decision on his candidacy will be made by the electoral court in September, while his lawyers have made it clear that they will increase their appeals by then.

Analysts say the election tribunal is likely to reject Lula's candidacy, but say his party's strategy is to capitalize on the emotional turmoil in the country for as long as possible before the "Plan B" is presented. , the candidacy of another party official for the presidency.

This is because if Lula is a candidate, he will automatically advance to the second round, but without him, every outcome of the match is open.

In the early hours of Thursday, the Supreme Court ruling was accepted with celebrations and fireworks by the former president's opponents.

In the country, which endured the yoke of military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985, after all, far-right MP Zaich Bolsonaru - a great nostalgia for the junta - ranks second in opinion polls after Lula.

 

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