https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/04\/12\/americas\/brazil-lawmakers-change-name-support-lula\/index.html<\/p>\n
\u2014 Dozens of Brazilian lawmakers from the socialist Workers’ Party, the PT, have requested to change their
\nnames to include “Lula.”
\nThe act is in solidarity with former President and founding member of PT Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. On Saturday,
\nLula da Silva turned himself over to federal authorities to begin serving a 12-year prison sentence for corruption.
\nPT politicians in both houses of Brazil’s National Congress
\nsubmitted requests to include Lula in their parliamentary
\nname, which identifies them in the polls and during legislative
\nsessions.
\n“It’s the ‘I’m Lula’ campaign. Lula asked us all to speak for
\nhim,” PT Sen. Lindbergh Farias, who requested his name be
\nchanged to Lindbergh Lula Farias, told the state-run news
\nagency Agencia Brasil.
\nThe campaign also included the PT president and senator
\nfrom the southern state of Paran\u00e1, Gleisi Homann.
\n“I request your excellency to alter, in the records of this House,
\nincluding in the plenary electronic panel, my parliamentary<\/p>\n
In the Chamber of Deputies, Brazil’s lower congressional house, at least 36 PT lawmakers submitted name change
\nrequests to the chamber’s presidency, state media reported.
\nLula da Silva was found guilty in July 2017 of corruption and
\nmoney laundering in a wide-ranging graft investigation into
\nthe state-run oil company Petrobras, dubbed “Operation Car
\nWash.” His request to remain free while appealing the
\nconviction was denied by a federal court last week.
\nSince Lula da Silva surrendered to federal police, PT
\npoliticians and supporters have held rallies calling for his
\nrelease and claiming his innocence.
\nThe 72-year-old, who governed Brazil from 2003-2011, was
\nconsidered a front-runner in the presidential elections in
\nOctober 2018. However, his detention has cast serious doubt
\non his bid to regain power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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