THE IDEA OF DEMOCRACY IN LULA’S SPEECH (2003-2010)
Democracy. Speeches. Lula.
With oscillations ranging from faith in democracy to disillusionment with democratic fruits, the reappearance among us of many people who praise a past of blood, torture and dictatorship leads to fear that the future holds dictatorships and setbacks for us. Brazilian democracy now appears as something fragile and doubtful. As, for all things, it is recommended to first understand, and only then interpret or criticize, we selected the thoughts related to democracy that Luís Inácio Lula da Silva explained in speeches made during his first term as President of the Republic. The relevance of the thought and the chosen individual is justified by the fact that he was elected and re-elected president of the republic in the first decade of this century and, before that, he was a frequent presence as a candidate in continuous elections since the end of the 1980s. Furthermore, , promoted and led strikes that shook the political-economic structure of the military dictatorship at the end of the 1970s. The central objective of the research is to extract, through the immanent analysis of Lula's speeches given between 2003 and 2010, a certain idea of democracy. Partial results of ongoing research reveal that, in Lula's speech, democracy is above everything and everyone, hovering over the State itself, since its driving force originates in another pole of human existence, civil society.