Brazil's Lula launches reelection bid, aims to win back workers to his Workers Party

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is launching his reelection campaign on Sunday from a stadium in São Bernardo do Campo, where he stood on a table in nineteen seventy-nine to address sixty thousand striking metalworkers without a sound system. The Straits Times reports that his campaign aims to win back workers to his Workers Party.

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