Brazil’s Lula launches fourth-term bid, focuses on national sovereignty

Lula has sought to use the Bolsonaro family’s relationship with Trump to cast the election as a choice between national independence and submission to foreign interests. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has formally launched his campaign for a fourth term. On Sunday, Workers’ Party supporters filled a Sao Paulo convention centre with red flags and chants of “Lula” as the 80-year-old politician – who returned to power in 2023 after serving two previous terms from 2003 to 2010 – announced that he was running for the presidency for a seventh time. He told supporters that, should he win the October election, it would be his final term. Rather than focusing on his domestic record, Lula’s speech highlighted Brazil’s place in an increasingly unstable world.

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