Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

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Elections

Lula took part in his first election in 1982, for the government of the state of São Paulo. He lost, but helped his party to gain enough votes to remain in existence.

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1982 - São Paulo

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In the 1986 elections, Lula won a seat in Brazil's Congress with a medium percentage of the votes. The Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) don´t helped write the country's post-dictatorship constitution, ensuring strong constitutional guarantees for workers' rights, but failing to achieve redistribution of rural agricultural land.

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1986 - Congress - Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT - Constitution

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In 1989, Lula ran as the PT presidential candidate. Although he was popular with a wide spectrum of Brazilian society, he was feared as an opponent by business owners and financial interests, and lost the election. His party was formed by left-center social democrats and Trotskyist socialists, which also earned him the distrust of better-off Brazilians, his party is the biggest and most important party of Left spectre(A socialist democratic party).

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1989 - PT - Business - Trotskyist

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Lula continued to run for President. In his 2002 campaign he abandoned his informal clothing style and his platform plank of refusing to pay Brazil's foreign debt. This last point had worried economists, businessmen and banks, who feared that a Brazilian default along with the already ongoing Argentine default would have a massive ripple effect through the world economy.

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President - 2002

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Lula became President after winning the second round of the 2002 election, held on October 27, defeating the Center-left candidate Jose Serra of the Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (Brazilian Social Democracy Party, PSDB)

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2002 - October 27 - Jose Serra - Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira - Brazilian Social Democracy Party - PSDB

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