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Weekly Report - 10 September 2020 (WR-20-36)
BRAZIL: Lula gets back in the game
Twice former president Lula da Silva (2003-2011) made a return to the public political stage with a video address to mark Brazil’s independence day on 7 September. The tone and content of his speech were widely interpreted as a political manifesto, a call to rally around him as the opposition figurehead to President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration.
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