Decision on when Worker’s party leader should start 12-year jail term expected to further polarise the country’s politicsThe fate of Brazils former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is in the balance as the country’s supreme court prepares to hand down a ruling that could lead to him being jailed before October elections for which he is currently the frontrunner. Tensions are running high with Brazil rocked by the recent killing of a Rio councillor,Marielle Franco, and Wednesday’s judicial decision seems likely to further polarise an already bitterly divided country. whether Lula is jailed, or his supporters will yowl political persecution; whether not,his detractors will allege corruption.
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Source: guardian.co.uk