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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is a Brazilian politician and former metalworker and trade union leader. A founder of the Workers' Party, he served as president from 2003 to 2010 and returned to the presidency in 2023.
DI has documented statements by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Criminal Justice Policy, Immigration Policy, and International Relations. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.
Lula calls his opponent's departure shameful and says he could have stayed to prove the accusations against him untrue.
“esse ato de sair do Brasil é vergonhoso. É vergonhoso.”
Watch the original video (opens in a new tab)Lula speaks at his 81st birthday celebrationFull 41:15 recording; remarks about departure at 30:50-34:50; quoted sentence at 34:15-34:22.
Why we used this label
The conduct under scrutiny is Bolsonaro leaving Brazil and being welcomed by the United States. Lula directly condemns the departure and argues that he could have stayed to disprove the accusations.
Trump says he would approve U.S. entry for Flávio Bolsonaro. Lula condemns the departure; Joaquin Castro objects to what he calls safe haven. Argentina records a flight bound for Ecuador after an earlier BBC report placed Bolsonaro in Florida.
