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8:26 CAT | 05 Sep 2018
The Workers’ Party (PT) of Brazil will go to the United Nations and the Supreme Federal Court (STF) to assure the presidential candidacy of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the former president’s spokesman, Fernando Haddad, said today.
We briefed President Lula about all legal possibilities at his disposal and he made the decision to ask the United Nations, in the first place, to express itself on the determination by Brazilian authorities to disobey the decision by the UN Human Rights Committee.
In the second place, he instructed to request the STF to limit (the provisional judicial order) in both the electoral and the criminal spheres to assure his right to register his presidential candidacy in the October 7 elections.
According to Haddad, who is also the presidential candidate for the coalition The People Happy Again, made up of the PT, the Communist Party of Brazil and the Republican Party of Social Order, ‘Lula decided to continue to defend his candidacy in order to respect the people’s sovereignty to choose the next president of the Republic.’
On September 1, the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) of Brazil ignored by a majority of votes a decision by the UN Human Rights Committee and vetoed Lula’s presidential candidacy.
In addition to cancelling Lula’s registration, the TSE set a ten-day deadline for The People Happy Again to replace Lula’s name in the presidential formula.
Source: Prensa Latina
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