Sarah Maslin is the economist Brazil correspondent. Lula's a former union organizer and a founder of the left wing workers party, or PT. He left office in 2010 with an 83% approval rating. But from 2018 to 2019, he spent 18 months in jail on corruption charges. Those charges were later annulled, which allowed him to run again.
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