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Career politician'? LOL. Lula started out as a metalworker and union leader, whereas Flávio Bolsonaro entered politics at age 21 on his father's name and has been a politician literally his entire adult life (state deputy from 2003 to 2019, and senator since 2019). Also, Brazil has separation of powers—it’s the Supreme Court (STF) and electoral courts that prosecute coup attempts, not the president. Do basic research on Brazilian politics before commenting; I’m not wasting my time educating you.

Lula also lost a finger on the job as a worker.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c35yn2ye1x85o

He's been in politics since the late 60's, so interpret that how you will. Lula also broke tradition and appointed ridiculously loyal justices to the STF, including his personal attorney and minister. Lula is a well-known corrupt politician who takes bribes, arrests his opponents on nonsense charges, bans or otherwise attacks companies not loyal to him, and now seems to rig elections. He's opposed to basic human rights like free speech and is threatening democracy in Brazil.

How could you support Lula when Moraes ordered Flávio's arrest within 7 minutes of "winning"? The best chance Brazil has of maintaining a functioning democracy at this point is if the US invades or otherwise forces them to resume fair elections.

Moraes didn't order his arrest, federal police asked to seize his passports and he signed off on it.

I agree with your point though. Seven minutes after he lost the election is wild. Everybody knows that the arrest would come soon after, and that he'd be tried by the judges the right wing was meant to impeach for abuse of power.

A passport seizure isn't "political persecution"—it's standard procedure when a suspect under active investigation for multi-million-dollar money laundering becomes an obvious flight risk. Notice how Flávio immediately proved the Federal Police right by fleeing the country just hours after his brother Eduardo publicly advised him to run if he lost.

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