Lula during an interview with the American CNN this Friday (10).| Photo: Ricardo Stuckert/PR.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) said this Friday (10) that former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) “has no chance of returning to the Presidency of the Republic”. The statement was made in an interview with journalist Christiane Amanpour, from CNN, in the United States. The petista said that Bolsonaro is a “faithful copy” of Donald Trump.

Asked whether he will ask for the former president’s extradition, Lula said he will not discuss this issue with his American counterpart, Joe Biden. “I’m not going to talk to Biden about this, because it will depend on the Brazilian Justice. I work with the idea that everyone has the right to the presumption of innocence. He has the right to explain himself to society. And I have the right to be judged in the most democratic way possible, in the way that I wasn’t. I want the presumption of innocence for him that I didn’t have”, he said.

“I didn’t come here to speak ill of a president who was a faithful copy of what Trump was for the United States,” he added. Bolsonaro has been in the US since December 30 and has already applied for a tourist visa, which would guarantee his stay in the country for another six months.