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Globo even denied that Lula's Workers'Party the right to send a representative to interview in his absence.
Despite former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva topping every presidential poll for the October general elections, Brazil's largest media news conglomerate O Globo, and its news station, GloboNews, has decided to exclude him and the Workers' Party, or PT, from a series of interviews featuring presidential hopefuls.
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Globo even denied that Lula's Workers'Party the right to send a representative to interview in his absence when presidential candidates are interviewed next week.
Instead, the second to sixth highest ranking candidates will be welcomed to the studios.
The network alleged that judge Carolina Lebbos' decision to deny Lula the right to grant interviews was the reason he was excluded from the election programs. Lula's official website, however, said O Globo did not attempt to petition the decision to interview with Lula.
Having been detained at the federal police headquarters in Curitiba since April 7, for allegedly receiving an apartment as a kickback in the national Car Wash corruption scandal, Lula has topped every 2018 electoral poll conducted by Vox Populi, Ibope, Datafolha, Data Poder 360, Instituto Parana, the National Confederation of Transportation/MDA and Ipsos.
From jail, the former president says that over the last decade Latin American democracies have made tremendous gains, but elites across the region change the rules of the game when they are not winning to benefit their small minority, “which, of course, is not a democracy. So it is an attempt at democracy without the people.”
His two terms in office were marked by a slew of social programs, lifting millions of Brazilians out of poverty and removing the country from the United Nations World Hunger Map. He left office with a record approval rating of 83 percent in 2011, according to Datafolha.
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