Both the Brazilian economy and Lula’s popularity continued to grow during his second term, and new oil discoveries in the Santos basin held great promise for the country’s future, which looked even brighter when Rio do Janeiro was chosen to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Constitutionally barred from running for a third consecutive term, Lula handpicked his chief of staff, Dilma Rousseff, as his successor.

While working in Congress, Bolsonaro hired Michelle as a secretary and over the next two years she received unusual promotions and her salary more than tripled.

In his testimony, former Brazilian Army commander Marco Antônio Freire Gomes said that he had warned Bolsonaro the army would not tolerate "any act of institutional rupture", and further added that Bolsonaro's actions could result in his arrest. Former Brazilian Air Force commander Carlos Baptista Júnior testified that he tried to dissuade Bolsonaro of "any extreme measure" and expressed his belief that Freire Gomes was instrumental in avoiding the use of a legal document that Bolsonaro presented in several meetings in December 2022 to overturn the results of the election.

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On September 20 the judge overseeing the investigation into the Petrobras scandal formally accepted the charges of corruption and money laundering against Lula, and he ordered the former president, his wife (Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva), and six others to stand trial. Lula once again protested his innocence, arguing that the charges were politically motivated and intended to prevent him from running for president in 2018. By 2017 Lula faced corruption charges in five separate cases related to the Petrobras scandal.

Supporters of Bolsonaro responded to Lula’s victory by claiming that the election had been illegitimate, taking to the streets in protest, and urging the military to intercede. Although Bolsonaro indicated that he would cooperate in the transition of power to Lula, he never formally conceded, and he outraged the president-elect by making a request to the military to investigate the election. The report issued from that investigation found no evidence of fraud, but it did not rule out the possibility that tampering with votes could have occurred, which some of Bolsonaro’s supporters interpreted as vindication of their claim that the election was illegitimate.

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Promising to extend Lula’s policies, Rousseff, who had been the point person for the administration’s landmark Growth Acceleration Program, advanced from the first round of elections to a runoff against Serra, whom she defeated convincingly to be elected Brazil’s first woman president.

Lula’s incarceration had brought an ongoing vigil outside the prison that became the focal point not only of “Free Lula” efforts but also of leftist activism in general. In November 2019 Lula was released from prison following a decision by the Supreme Court that overturned the Court’s earlier ruling requiring the incarceration of convicted individuals whose first appeal had been bolsonaro vereador denied.

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The politician also claimed that the "least heavy" of the quilombolas weighed seven arrobas, a unit of measure that is used in Brazil to weigh cattle.[332] These comments have been criticized as an attempt to dehumanize Black Brazilians.[333]

Dozens of high-level businesspeople and politicians were indicted as part of the widespread investigation into the scandal. In August 2015 the list of those arrested expanded to include José Dirceu, who had served as chief of staff for Lula from 2003 to 2005.

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