Lula’s 2022 Bid Gets Boost as Brazil Court Drops His Convictions
- Most of Brazil’s top court judges back annulling conviction
- Former president now legally allowed to run again in 2022
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The path for a likely new presidential run by Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva became clearer after Brazil’s top court backed one of its justices who had tossed out all criminal convictions against the leftist icon.
Seven of the court’s 11 justices voted in favor of the former president on Thursday, one month after Justice Edson Fachin ruled that the federal court in the southern city of Curitiba had no jurisdiction over cases against Lula. The vote was still ongoing.