Brazil ex-president Lula makes political comeback to save his embattled successor Dilma Rousseff

Brazil’s popular ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has delared that he is returning to the bruising political frontlines to defend his successor, the embattled Dilma Rousseff.

“Our opponents talk about me from morning until night... Well, it’s harder to kill a bird if he keeps flying. That’s why I started flying again,” Lula, 69, said Saturday at a rally in Sao Paulo state, a day after admitting he could even seek the presidency again in 2018.

“Well, now I am going to speak. I am going to talk. I am going to give interviews and I am going to make people uncomfortable,” Lula added.

On Friday he said that he did not want to see his ruling Workers’ Party lose power after 12 years.

“I am sure that our rivals are heading out to undo what we achieved in improving people’s lives,” he told the rally.

“I have broad shoulders and I have been beaten up plenty in my life. Let’s see if our rivals give our beloved Dilma a little break and start being bothered by me again,” Lula said, alongside former Uruguayan president Jose Mujica.