Lula, 80, launches fourth-term bid from the stadium where his career began

Lula, 80, launches fourth-term bid from the stadium where his career began

At 80, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva launched his campaign for a fourth presidential term on August 16 at Vila Euclides stadium in São Bernardo do Campo — where his political trajectory began with metalworkers' strikes in 1979. He vowed the "shameless" right would not return to power. Lula faces Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, son of jailed former president Jair Bolsonaro, in October's election.

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