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The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvaconfirmed this Thursday that he will play a fourth term in the elections of October 2026, during a statement to the press within the framework of his state visit to Indonesia.
“I am going to run for a fourth term in Brazil,” Lula said to his Indonesian counterpart Prabowo Subianto, at the end of a bilateral meeting in Jakarta, according to the speech read by the Brazilian president and released by the Presidency of the South American country.
In his statement, the progressive leader noted that although his current mandate ends at the end of 2026, he is “prepared to contest other elections.”
Lula, who He will turn 80 on October 27noted that despite his age he has the same energy as when he was 30 and stressed that this decision will strengthen bilateral relations: “We will see each other many more times and I will make the relationship between Indonesia and Brazil more valuable.”
The announcement came after the signing of agreements on energy, mining, agriculture and technology, among others, during a ceremony at the Indonesian Presidential Palace.
Lula and Subianto also agreed to advance a Mercosur-Indonesia Preferential Trade Agreement before next December.
After the official visit to Indonesia, the Brazilian president, Lula, will travel to Malaysia, where he will participate in the summit of leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), in which a possible meeting with the US president, Donald Trump, is planned.
Lula is founder of the Workers’ Party (PT), He governed in two consecutive periods, between 2003 and 2011and returned to power on January 1, 2023 after defeating the then president, Jair Bolsonaro, in the elections, convicted of an attempted coup against him.