Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was released on Friday, one day after Brazil's Supreme Court decided to end the mandatory imprisonment of convicted criminals after they lose their first appeal.

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Brazil's former president Lula da Silva is released from prison

A judge has authorized the release after the Supreme approved this Thursday that the convicted will only enter prison when the sentence is final

Lula da Silva has left this Friday the prison in which it has been more than a year after a judge ordered hours before his release. The former president of Brazil, who had been imprisoned for corruption for 19 months and whose justice prevented him from attending the last elections, has once again stepped on the street. The magistrate's decision comes a day after the Supreme Court decided on the minimum, six to five, to revoke a criterion established three years ago - and crucial in the investigations of Lava Jato -, so that now the convicted will only enter prison when the sentence is final, not after the second instance conviction.

The defense of the former president made an impending release request on Friday morning. Federal judge Danilo Pereira accepted the appeal of the former president's lawyers and authorized Lula to leave the prison. After leaving the detention center, the former president has given a speech on a stage set up moments before in front of the building for which he has been released. He is expected to go home in the city of Sao Bernardo, in São Paulo, this weekend to be with his family.

"Dear companions and dear companions, they don't know what it means to be here with you. All my life I have been talking to the Brazilian people and I didn't think I could be here today," Lula said after leaving prison. "They tried to criminalize the left, I can't leave here without thanking them," he added.

The liberation of Lula has an immense political repercussion in a very polarized Brazil. The former president, and collaterally the Workers Party, is the issue that most divides his countrymen, is loved or hated. It leaves no one indifferent. Numerous followers of the ex-president, crowded in front of the prison, awaited the decision of the judge that has finally arrived this Friday. "Release Lula!", He has chanted all morning at the gates of the jail. His supporters were on guard since the first day he was in prison, on April 7, 2018. A vigil in which Brazilians from all over the country greeted him religiously the 580 days he has spent behind bars with a “Good morning, president” .

The current president, Jair Bolsonaro , has not yet made any comment on the release of Lula. The only indirect reference he has made is to praise the achievements in the anti-corruption fight of his Minister of Justice, Sérgio Moro, the first judge who condemned Lula, his great political rival.

Together with their relatives, their loyal voters were the most excited about the idea of seeing the former president out of jail. Especially after the ex-president promised that the first thing he would do when leaving prison would be to have a drink with them. A gesture of gratitude before the vigil they have made for more than a year in front of the building in which he is imprisoned.

Mirian Krueger, 60, is from Indaial, in southern Brazil. The day came when Lula entered prison, and has returned to Curitiba about 50 times to try to be close to the ex-president. Francisco, a rural worker from Castro, in the interior of the country, was here when Lula was imprisoned and returned Friday before the possibility of his release.

The decisive vote of the Supreme As in Brazil the deliberations of the Supreme Court are public and televised, the citizens followed live during the last weeks the arguments and the voting of each one of the 11 magistrates of the Supreme. The tension reached record levels when the vote of the tenth magistrate was a tie. Five against five. The president of the Supreme, Antonio Dias Toffoli, had the last word. He tipped the balance in favor of Lula and the rest of the inmates. A decision that allowed Judge Danilo Pereira Júnior to order the former president's release on Friday.

Lula still has pending cases with justice and is waiting for the Supreme Court to resolve an appeal that could take him back to prison. With a new partner after being widowed before entering jail, there are all kinds of speculations about what he could do when he regains freedom. The ex-president, who abandoned power with very high levels of popularity for having removed millions of Brazilians from poverty, was sentenced in second instance - it is not yet a final sentence - to eight years for corruption for having benefited from some works carried out by a builder in an apartment that frequented.

In a similar case, he is sentenced in the first instance to another 11 years. He maintains that he is the victim of a witch hunt within the framework of the Lava Jato macrocosm that revealed massive bribes in Brazil and the rest of the continent and has meant the imprisonment of many of Brazil's most powerful politicians and businessmen.

The ruling of the Supreme Court on Thursday was a tremendous blow for the investigators of the Lava Jato case , who issued a statement after the decision to emphasize that “the existence of four judicial instances, together with an excessive number of remedies, entails delays and prescription, resulting in impunity. " And since 2016 and in the heat of the anti-corruption macro case, those convicted in the second instance went to jail. The fear of being deprived of liberty was one of the factors that contributed to the proliferation of so-called awarded awards, benefits for those convicted in exchange for disclosures and incriminate third parties. Bolsonarismo, other parties such as the PSDB or prosecutors criticized the change of opinion of the Supreme Court, which however support the lawyers of Brazil.

The highest Brazilian court has been subject to capital pressure, especially in social networks from the circles closest to Bolsonarism. The dean of the magistrates said: "This Supreme Court does not judge based on the quality of the people or their economic, political, social or state or functional status." He added: “This trial refers to the examination of fundamental law that translates a crucial historical conquest of citizenship before the State. Always fought, this fundamental right, by despotic regimes ”. Despite this solemn declaration, the Supreme Court's jurisprudence on second instance prison has varied over the years.

Minister Moro issued a statement Thursday expressing his respect for the Supreme's ruling. Bolsonaro, avoiding referring at all times to Lula, preferred to focus on praising the most popular of his ministers whom he signed as an anti-corruption crusader to continue with that mission. "Part of what happens in Brazilian politics we owe it to Moro," he said in an act after being asked by Lula

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**Brazil's former president Lula da Silva is released from prison** *A judge has authorized the release after the Supreme approved this Thursday that the convicted will only enter prison when the sentence is final* Lula da Silva has left this Friday the prison in which it has been more than a year after a judge ordered hours before his release. The former president of Brazil, who had been imprisoned for corruption for 19 months and whose justice prevented him from attending the last elections, has once again stepped on the street. The magistrate's decision comes a day after the Supreme Court decided on the minimum, six to five, to revoke a criterion established three years ago - and crucial in the investigations of Lava Jato -, so that now the convicted will only enter prison when the sentence is final, not after the second instance conviction. The defense of the former president made an impending release request on Friday morning. Federal judge Danilo Pereira accepted the appeal of the former president's lawyers and authorized Lula to leave the prison. After leaving the detention center, the former president has given a speech on a stage set up moments before in front of the building for which he has been released. He is expected to go home in the city of Sao Bernardo, in São Paulo, this weekend to be with his family. "Dear companions and dear companions, they don't know what it means to be here with you. All my life I have been talking to the Brazilian people and I didn't think I could be here today," Lula said after leaving prison. "They tried to criminalize the left, I can't leave here without thanking them," he added. The liberation of Lula has an immense political repercussion in a very polarized Brazil. The former president, and collaterally the Workers Party, is the issue that most divides his countrymen, is loved or hated. It leaves no one indifferent. Numerous followers of the ex-president, crowded in front of the prison, awaited the decision of the judge that has finally arrived this Friday. "Release Lula!", He has chanted all morning at the gates of the jail. His supporters were on guard since the first day he was in prison, on April 7, 2018. A vigil in which Brazilians from all over the country greeted him religiously the 580 days he has spent behind bars with a “Good morning, president” . The current president, Jair Bolsonaro , has not yet made any comment on the release of Lula. The only indirect reference he has made is to praise the achievements in the anti-corruption fight of his Minister of Justice, Sérgio Moro, the first judge who condemned Lula, his great political rival. Together with their relatives, their loyal voters were the most excited about the idea of seeing the former president out of jail. Especially after the ex-president promised that the first thing he would do when leaving prison would be to have a drink with them. A gesture of gratitude before the vigil they have made for more than a year in front of the building in which he is imprisoned. Mirian Krueger, 60, is from Indaial, in southern Brazil. The day came when Lula entered prison, and has returned to Curitiba about 50 times to try to be close to the ex-president. Francisco, a rural worker from Castro, in the interior of the country, was here when Lula was imprisoned and returned Friday before the possibility of his release. The decisive vote of the Supreme As in Brazil the deliberations of the Supreme Court are public and televised, the citizens followed live during the last weeks the arguments and the voting of each one of the 11 magistrates of the Supreme. The tension reached record levels when the vote of the tenth magistrate was a tie. Five against five. The president of the Supreme, Antonio Dias Toffoli, had the last word. He tipped the balance in favor of Lula and the rest of the inmates. A decision that allowed Judge Danilo Pereira Júnior to order the former president's release on Friday. Lula still has pending cases with justice and is waiting for the Supreme Court to resolve an appeal that could take him back to prison. With a new partner after being widowed before entering jail, there are all kinds of speculations about what he could do when he regains freedom. The ex-president, who abandoned power with very high levels of popularity for having removed millions of Brazilians from poverty, was sentenced in second instance - it is not yet a final sentence - to eight years for corruption for having benefited from some works carried out by a builder in an apartment that frequented. In a similar case, he is sentenced in the first instance to another 11 years. He maintains that he is the victim of a witch hunt within the framework of the Lava Jato macrocosm that revealed massive bribes in Brazil and the rest of the continent and has meant the imprisonment of many of Brazil's most powerful politicians and businessmen. The ruling of the Supreme Court on Thursday was a tremendous blow for the investigators of the Lava Jato case , who issued a statement after the decision to emphasize that “the existence of four judicial instances, together with an excessive number of remedies, entails delays and prescription, resulting in impunity. " And since 2016 and in the heat of the anti-corruption macro case, those convicted in the second instance went to jail. The fear of being deprived of liberty was one of the factors that contributed to the proliferation of so-called awarded awards, benefits for those convicted in exchange for disclosures and incriminate third parties. Bolsonarismo, other parties such as the PSDB or prosecutors criticized the change of opinion of the Supreme Court, which however support the lawyers of Brazil. The highest Brazilian court has been subject to capital pressure, especially in social networks from the circles closest to Bolsonarism. The dean of the magistrates said: "This Supreme Court does not judge based on the quality of the people or their economic, political, social or state or functional status." He added: “This trial refers to the examination of fundamental law that translates a crucial historical conquest of citizenship before the State. Always fought, this fundamental right, by despotic regimes ”. Despite this solemn declaration, the Supreme Court's jurisprudence on second instance prison has varied over the years. Minister Moro issued a statement Thursday expressing his respect for the Supreme's ruling. Bolsonaro, avoiding referring at all times to Lula, preferred to focus on praising the most popular of his ministers whom he signed as an anti-corruption crusader to continue with that mission. "Part of what happens in Brazilian politics we owe it to Moro," he said in an act after being asked by Lula https://elpais.com/internacional/2019/11/08/actualidad/1573232604_836089.html

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