The launch of the pre-candidacy returned Lula to the front pages around the world, with coverage focusing on his effort to seek the center, with vice president Geraldo Alckmin.
In the Financial Times, with a photo on the home page, “Lula targets centrist voters at the launch of the reelection campaign in Brazil”. In a statement by the Associated Press, by the Washington Post and others, “Lula is courting centrists in the unofficial launch of the campaign.”
The German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, with the above call, highlighted that “Former President Lula challenges Bolsonaro”:
Also with a photo on the home page, the London-based The Guardian published two reports, highlighting Lula’s speech and then the statement by his deputy, in the so-called “‘He is the only way’ – How Lula’s allies hope he will end the Bolsonaro era “.
In the French Le Monde, “Lula announces his candidacy to ‘rebuild Brazil'”. In the Spanish El País, “Lula launches himself in the electoral race to ‘return fascism to the sewer'”.
In the Xinhua agency and on sites such as Sina and Huanqiu, the Chinese coverage was report, with records in the middle of the texts for the announcement by Lula that “cooperation between the BRICS countries will be deepened”, if he is elected.
With attention also to Alckmin, “twice governor of the economic power of Brazil, the State of São Paulo”.
In Argentina’s La Nación, “Lula da Silva launched his candidacy and warned that ‘democracy is at stake'”. In the Colombian El Tiempo, “Lula, the phoenix that seeks to regain power in Brazil”.
