Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, is a Brazilian politician who served as the 35th President of Brazil from 2003 to 2011 and was re-elected as the 39th President in 2023. A former trade union leader and co-founder of the Workers' Party, he is one of the most prominent left-wing figures in Latin American politics.
On why he has never been elected in a single round, Brazilian President Lula:
"Do you know why winning in the first round never worked out? Because the people like seeing me fight the second round, and I'm very good in the knockout stage."
"Trump knows that we have strategic things that he needs. I still have not put the reciprocity law into practice.
But he imports niobium, and 60% of his niobium comes from Brazil. And he knows that the moment we apply reciprocity, I'm going to play the same way he played."
"The leaders with the biggest economies, technology, militaries and nuclear arsenals are the ones who should stop wars and make peace. Instead, they keep fomenting confrontations. Where are we going to end up with this?"
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