Lula gears up for next year's Brazil elections

Leftist leader and former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula) is already gearing up for the presidential elections in 2022.

At a homeless Christmas rally on Wednesday Lula promised to hold Bolsonaro government officials accountable if he is re-elected to the presidency for a third time in next year's elections.

"He (Bolsonaro) will leave easily because the Brazilian people will remove him from the presidency," he said during the rally.

Lula also referred to his opponents, including right-wing presidential candidate, former judge Sergio Moro, and potential candidate, former prosecutor Deltan Martinazzo Dallagnol, accused of failing to act impartially in Lula's corruption trial in Operation Car Wash.

It remains the biggest corruption scandal in Brazil's history.

"They all became politicians; it's funny, isn't it? But we're going to give them a reckoning; you can't imagine".

Polls from Quaest Genial show Lula beating President Jair Bolsonaro by a wide margin, with 46% to 23% for Bolsonaro if he runs next year.

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