‘Brazil is a global pariah’: Lula on his plot to end reign of ‘psychopath’ Bolsonaro

Brazil's former leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva left no doubt he was planning a finale to a dramatic political career

Brazil can be rescued after being turned into a Covid-stricken global outcast by its psychopath" president Jair Bolsonaro, the politician best placed to defeat him in next year's presidential election has insisted.

In an interview with the Guardian, Brazil's former leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva - who is widely tipped to challenge Bolsonaro for the presidency after regaining his political rights - stopped short of explicitly confirming he would run. But Lula, who rose from rural poverty to become Brazil's first working-class president, left no doubt he was plotting an extraordinary finale to one of the world's most enduring and dramatic political careers.