Former President Lula, in the middle of a legal battle with his sentence of nearly 10 years in jail for corruption, will go on a three-week tour in August in 28 cities in northeastern Brazil, the disadvantaged region, and the electoral left.
The tour, announced Tuesday by the Workers’ Party, a left-wing formation created by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, will start in Bahia on August 17 and allow it to “listen to the needs of the people.”
“The best lesson I received about Brazil was when I traveled across the country,” Lula said last Friday on a local radio. “That’s why I’m going to start caravans again.”
The region he is going through, more commonly known as Nordeste, is traditionally an electoral land of Lula, who at 71 years has announced his intention to run for the presidential election scheduled for October 2018.
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