A third term for Lula?
With his designated successor Dilma Rousseff facing health problems ahead of 2010 presidential elections, and the lukewarm support of a key allied party (PMDB), the rumor in Brazil is that two-term president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of the Worker’s Party is mulling a third term. (The Brazilian Constitution would need to be changed for this to happen).
One cartoonist, Amarildo, from Rio daily O Globo, is having a field day with this. In the first, the cartoonist has shown Lula in bed with his wife, Marisa Leticia Lula da Silva, but Lula has somehow magically morphed into Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. He says to his wife, “Marisa, I swear I’m not thinking of a third term!” Marisa responds, “Sure joker, You get a strange look on your face every time you talk about it!”
Strange face indeed …
Some in Brazil thought it was inappropriate to show Chávez in bed with Lula’s wife.
The next cartoon, published today, is clearer, and shows Lula musing not about one more term, but two more terms. Lula’s reading a newspaper article saying that life expectancy for Brazilian males is 73 years. He thinks, “I’m 64 years old, 9 years to go for 73. Sweet! I have enough time for two more terms!”
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