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Silva, Luís Inácio Lula da

Luís Inácio Lula da Silva

b. 27 Oct 1945, Garanhuns, Pernambuco

Title: Presidente da República Federativa do Brasil (President of the Federative Republic of Brazil)
Term: 1 Jan 2003 -
Chronology: 27 Oct 2002, elected by direct popular voting
  1 Jan 2003, 00:00, term commenced
  1 Jan 2003, took the oath of office at the session of the National Congress, Congressional Palace, meeting hall of the Chamber of Deputies, Brasília
Names/titles: Original name: Luís Inácio da Silva (changed to Luís Inácio Lula da Silva c. 1982); old/self-spelling: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Biography:

Originating from the impoverished north of Brazil, the family of Luís Inácio da Silva (nicknamed Lula) immigrated to the State of São Paulo in 1952. In his teens, Lula worked as a shoe shiner and as an office boy. He studied at a technical school and in 1966 received a job with the Indústrias Villares, a major metallurgical enterprise. In the early 1970s Lula became a trade union activist and was elected (1975) president of a trade union of metallurgy industry workers. In 1980 Lula founded the Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores) and was prosecuted by the military authorities, spending a month in prison. In 1986 Lula was elected to the Chamber of Deputies as a representative for the State of São Paulo. He was a runner-up at three consecutive elections of President of the Republic in 1989, 1994 and 1998. Making a bid for the presidency for the fourth time in 2002, Lula emerged as a triumphant winner of the runoff election and was inaugurated on 1 Jan 2003.

Election results:

Candidate Popular vote (1st round: 6 Oct 2002) [1] Popular vote (2nd round: 27 Oct 2002) [1]
Luís Inácio Lula da Silva 39,454,692 (46.44%) 52,793,364 (61.27%)
José Serra 19,705,061 (23.20%) 33,370,739 (38.73%)
Anthony William "Garotinho" Mathéus de Oliveira 15,179,879 (17.87%) -
Ciro Ferreira Gomes 10,170,666 (11.97%) -
José Maria de Almeida "zé Maria" 402,232 (0.47%) -
Rui Costa Pimenta 38,619 (0.05%) -
blank 2,873,720 (3.03%) 1,727,760 (1.88%)
void 6,976,107 (7.36%) 3,772,138 (4.12%)
pending at time of publication 3,150 (0.00%) 258 (0.00%)
abstentions 20,449,690 (17.74%) 23,589,188 (20.47%)
Sources and notes:
[1] Superior Electoral Tribunal of the Federative Republic of Brazil (official web site).
  Image: photograph (2003).

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