Brazilians learned his current name in 2019, when the left-wing ex-president Lula (2003-2010), who is standing for re-election this Sunday, October 30, had just spent more than a year behind bars for corruption – a conviction finally annulled a few months later by the Supreme Court for formal defect. The old lion of politics, then a widower for two years, intended to marry after his release from prison Rosângela da Silva, nicknamed “Janja”, sociologist and long-time activist of his political formation, the Workers’ Party (PT).
The couple, who had started dating before Lula was jailed, first appeared together on the day the left-wing leader was released in November 2019 and tied the knot last May.
Since then, this 56-year-old dark-haired woman with glasses has gradually established herself in the political landscape. Beyond public appearances alongside Lula, 77, she actually plays a real “role of campaign organizer”who “intensified” during the in-between rounds, observe for his part The globe :
“She]strengthened her