translated from Spanish: Brazil: Haddad uses the legacy of Lula to promote his presidential candidacy

the former Minister Fernando Haddad on Wednesday invoked the legacy of the Gobi ernos of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to boost his presidential in his first campaign Act candidacy after electoral renunciation of the Uribe Brazilian, imprisoned for corruption and disabled by the justice.
“We won’t withdraw from a project that was so well for so many people,” said the candidate by the workers party (PT) in a meeting with students in Sao Paulo.
The choice of an act of educational profile in the largest metropolis of the country was no accident, as he was Minister of education in the Government of Lula and Dilma Rousseff and served as Mayor of São Paulo between 2013 and 2016.
Haddad returns now to an electoral contest, this time for the Presidency, after suffering in 2016 a real bump in his attempt to be reelected Mayor of São Paulo and with the challenge of absorbing the broad support in less than a month that attributed the demoscopi probes COS Lula before being disabled.
Polls then gave the former President a victory in first round with nearly 40 percent of sympathies, compared with 8% who ascribed to Haddad on the eve a poll by the Ibope Institute.
However, Haddad trusts that this political flow that Lula had despite his imprisonment is now transferred to your figure and the of Manuela D’ Ávila, candidate for Vice President and also present at the ceremony on Wednesday.
“It is secret,” said the former Minister ironically when journalists asked him about the strategy to achieve this transfer.
In his first act as a presidential candidate, Haddad made a review of programs that drove when he was the education portfolio holder, and availed herself of the legacy of his political godfather to show them the people will return to “their dreams”.
“I think that the Governments of Lula (2003-2010) showed that it is possible to” create conditions “so that you can grow as individuals”, said Haddad.
From prison, the former leader disclosed a new letter in which his heir warned that it will be difficult to correct the mistakes of the current Government of Michel fear and invited him to “resume the process of transformation of Brazil, for the benefit of the people”, which he initiated.
Haddad was confirmed as presidential candidate by the PT on Tuesday, on the last day of the period marked by the Electoral Superior Court so that the progressive formation change candidate after vetoing the name of Lula for the October elections.
The former President tried in vain in the electoral tribunal and the Supreme Court resources, waited until the last moment, but in the end was forced to withdraw her candidacy to the risk of the party to stay out of the presidential race.
“This is not one or two people, it is a collective project,” defended Haddad to then quote a phrase of Lula who spoke in his historic speech to the Union of Metalworkers before handing over to the police for entering prison.
“They will not contain the spring, will not contain it,” prefaced the former Mayor, while the audience shouted “free Lula!”.
Haddad referred to the so-called “nervousness” of some media and of the other candidates when he saw that the PT is still in the presidential race with his name, which is experiencing an uptrend, though mild, in the polls.
According to Ibope, Haddad (8%) is technically tied in the second place, if one takes into account the margin of error of two points, with the labour Ciro Gomes (11%), the ecologist Marina Silva (9%) and the Social Democrat Geraldo Alckmin (9%). Far is the ultra-right Jair Bolsonaro, leading with 26%.
Gomes said in an interview with several media that “Brazil not endure another Dilma (Rousseff), referring to Haddad, and that”The only PT thinks of itself”.
Marina Silva chose the same line and said in another interview that Haddad is “very similar” to Rousseff, removed in 2016 by Congress for irregularities in the management of budgets. The two, like Haddad, were also Ministers of Lula.
Furthermore, students who attended the event in Sao Paulo showed its strong support to the former Mayor.
Jayná Wine, aged 21, believed that the “people, with security, will trust Haddad, as Lula relied on him” and assured that “it will represent very well the political project”, while some of his colleagues were handing out stickers that appeared to Lula as candidate Presidential.

Original source in Spanish