Lula, a metal worker, in Taubaté

No candidate for the function of mayor of Taubaté managed to get a majority in the first round.

Goods of  the Ortizzes blocked by the court

So the two candidates with the most votes went to the second round. A serious fight between Ortiz-Junior (Tucano) and Isaac (Partido dos Trabalhadores). Ortiz is from the Ortiz dynasty that gives the impression that they want to run Taubaté as their fazenda (Lula remarked about this). Isaac is like Lula a metal worker.

What could be more effective than to get Lula to Taubaté to endorse Isaac?! And he came! Yesterday Thursday the 25th of October.























Thousands of people in the Epaminondas square in the center of Taubaté. In the last moment Ortiz tried to get this meeting prohibited, but the judge didn't go along. Imagine the chaos if the police would have had to go in the clean out the many many people, who longed so much to see their former president.


I was next to some elderly women from a bairro (quarter) "Tres Maria's"- one of the poor parts of Taubaté. They were so happy to see their great "president". They were there waiting from 4 in the afternoon (like us).

We listened to an enthusiastic speaker and Isaac-party-songs and looked at vereadores and prefeitos (aldermen and mayors) from other cities... Waiting, waiting.... more than 3 hours!!

But then he came! ......

....... And he spoke! And the people could relate to what he said, about chances and education. The Brazilian elite that didn't want him to be a president because he had no diploma's, that disgusted him. The elite that didn't want common people going on airplanes like them or doing other things they considered their "prerogatives".

Lula, making it clear that Isaac was like him, a metal worker, one of us.