- Title: Brazil's Lula vows to punish corruption if elected in October
- Date: 26th August 2022
- Summary: RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL (AUGUST 25, 2022) (REUTERS) (NIGHT SHOTS) VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WATCHING INTERVIEW IN A BAR
- Embargoed: 9th September 2022 14:34
- Keywords: Brazil Elections Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Presidential election
- Location: RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
- City: RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
- Country: Brazil
- Topics: South America / Central America,Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
- Reuters ID: LVA006087426082022RP1
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- Story Text:Former leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who spent 19 months in prison on bribery convictions, promised on Thursday (August 25) to crack down on corruption if elected in Brazil's October election.
Lula said he would create new mechanisms to investigate anyone in his government accused of corruption and punish them if proven guilty, in an interview with TV Globo's Jornal Nacional, a newscast with the largest audience in Brazil.
From the streets of Rio de Janeiro, people crowded around televisions in bars and food trucks to follow the interview. A local, Thiago, said he just watched it to confirm he would vote for Lula da Silva on October 2.
After leading Brazil from 2003 to 2010, Lula was jailed in the country's biggest corruption investigation that put dozens of politicians and businessmen in prison for graft and bribes. His convictions were later annulled allowing him to run again for office.
Lula has a double-digit lead in opinion polls over his far-right rival, President Jair Bolsonaro, in Brazil's most polarized race in decades.
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