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By Gabriel Araujo and Lisandra Paraguassu
SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was recovering in an intensive care unit on Tuesday, medical doctors mentioned, after being rushed to a Sao Paulo hospital for emergency surgical procedure to empty a bleed on his mind linked to a fall in October.
The 79-year-old Lula was in steady situation and talking and consuming usually after the profitable operation at Sirio-Libanes Hospital, medical doctors mentioned at a press convention.
The bleeding that Lula skilled occurred between his mind and meningeal membrane, mentioned the medical doctors, who dominated out any damage to the mind or neurological issues.
Lula, who was in surgical procedure for about two hours, is predicted to stay in intensive take care of 48 hours and return to the capital Brasilia early subsequent week “if every thing goes properly,” his physician, Roberto Kalil Filho, instructed reporters.
The emergency surgical procedure added to well being issues concerning the growing older president, an ordinary bearer of the Latin American left who’s midway via his third non-consecutive time period.
Weak outcomes for his Staff Get together on this 12 months’s municipal elections underscored the shortage of a transparent leftist successor if he chooses to not run for reelection in 2026.
Lula has curtailed journey in latest months whereas medical doctors monitored his restoration from trauma to the again of his head when he fell at his house in late October, requiring stitches.
He complained of a worsening headache throughout talks with congressional leaders on Monday night in Brasilia, and was taken to a neighborhood hospital for exams, presidential spokesperson Paulo Pimenta mentioned in a radio interview.
An MRI scan detected an intracranial hemorrhage, and Lula was flown quickly after to Sao Paulo for the surgical procedure, in keeping with a medical observe launched by the federal government.
Vice President Geraldo Alckmin canceled plans in Sao Paulo on Tuesday to return to Brasilia, his aide mentioned, the place he’ll assume Lula’s agenda, together with a go to from Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico.
Pimenta mentioned Lula could not have to formally switch the powers of the presidency to Alckmin.
DYNAMIC FORCE
After some 5 a long time of public life, Lula stays a dynamic pressure on Brazil’s political scene, whipping up crowds together with his gruff voice and hammering out coverage particulars in private conferences with lawmakers.
Born into poverty in northeast Brazil, Lula discovered work as a metalworker in Sao Paulo earlier than rising via union ranks to steer strikes pitting him towards the nation’s navy authorities within the Nineteen Seventies.
He co-founded the Staff Get together and ran repeatedly for the presidency after Brazil’s transition to democracy within the Nineteen Eighties earlier than profitable the workplace in 2002. His first two phrases have been marked by a China-driven commodities increase that boosted Brazil’s economic system and helped to fund extra beneficiant social spending.
After he left workplace in 2011 with report recognition, his chosen successor oversaw a deep recession and was impeached amid a sprawling corruption investigation that jailed Lula himself, convicted of accepting bribes.
The Supreme Court docket finally threw out that conviction on procedural grounds, opening the door for his profitable presidential run in 2022 to cap a surprising comeback.
His first 12 months again in workplace was marked by a sequence of worldwide journeys – and hip surgical procedure in September. In late October he slipped and fell within the presidential residence, resulting in the intracranial bleeding that his medical doctors had been monitoring.
The damage pressured him to cancel a visit to Russia for a summit of the BRICS group of main rising markets in Kazan. Assessments in early November confirmed Lula’s situation was steady and he remained lively, not too long ago touring to Montevideo to debate a Mercosur commerce deal.
“I want President Lula a speedy restoration. Could he return to work as quickly as doable to proceed main his authorities’s actions, so necessary for the nation at this second,” Senate head Rodrigo Pacheco mentioned in a press release.
Pacheco and the speaker of Brazil’s decrease home of Congress, Arthur Lira, met with Lula on Monday as he pushed for legislative approval of a package deal of spending cuts that has stored monetary markets on edge.
