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Judi Lynn

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Wed May 16, 2018, 11:21 PM May 2018

Brazil lashes out at European backing for Lula candidacy

16 May 2018 - 18H47


BRASÍLIA (AFP) -

Brazil on Wednesday lashed out at a demand by former European leaders for disgraced ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to be allowed to take part in elections this year.

A group of former EU leftist leaders, including French ex-president Francois Holland and Spanish former prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, on Monday called Lula's imprisonment for corruption "hurried" and said he should be "free to present himself before Brazilian voters."

Brazilian Foreign Minister Aloysio Nunes responded that because Lula had lost an appeal against his graft conviction he had automatically lost the right to run for public office.

Nunes branded the European former leaders' appeal "filled with prejudices, arrogant and anachronistic."

More:
http://www.france24.com/en/20180516-brazil-lashes-out-european-backing-lula-candidacy

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