Brazil's Lula says party may field someone else in 2018


  • World
  • Thursday, 24 Aug 2017

Former Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gives an interview for Reuters in the northeastern city of Penedo in Alagoas, Brazil August 23, 2017. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker

PENEDO, Brazil (Reuters) - Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told Reuters on Wednesday that his recent conviction for corruption might mean that his Workers Party will have to field a candidate other than him in next year's election.

In an interview during a marathon bus tour through Brazil's impoverished northeastern states, Lula said the Brazilian government should spend its way out of its worst recession on record and even use some of its international reserves instead of cutting government programs that hurt the poor.

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