PALACE TO PRISON: BRAZIL EX-PREZ LULA IN DATES

BRAZIL’S EX-PRESIDENT LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA SUFFERED A SETBACK FROM AN ELECTORAL COURT THAT BARRED HIM FROM RUNNING IN OCTOBER’S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. THE 72-YEAR-OLD WAS LEADING POLLS IN BRAZIL DESPITE HIS INCARCERATION FOR CORRUPTION Here is a list of key dates in the life of one of the world’s most popular politicians.

■ October 27, 1945: Lula is born to a poor farming family in Brazil.

■ 1975: He becomes president of the metal workers’ union.

■ 1978-80: At the height of the military dictatorship, Lula leads major strikes in the industrial suburbs and is jailed.

■ 1980: Lula cofounds leftist Workers’ Party (PT) and takes part in the creation, in 1983, of the Unified Workers' Central (CUT). ■ 1986: He is elected to Congress.

■ 2003: Lula becomes Brazil’s first Leftist president after winning election. He is reelected in 2006

■ 2016: The SC blocks his appointment as chief of staff to President Dilma Rousseff, his handpicked successor. She is then impeached.

■ July 2017: Lula is found guilty of receiving a bribe from a Brazilian firm, sentenced to nine and a half years behind bars.

■ January 2018: He loses appeal and sentence hiked to 12 years.

■ April 5, 2018: After losing an appeal to delay the sentence, Lula is ordered to turn himself in within 24 hours.

■ April 7, 2018: Shortly before midnight, Lula becomes an inmate at the federal police headquarters in Curitiba.

■ August 15, 2018: Workers' Party registers his presidential candidacy.

■ August 31, 2018: A majority of Brazil's electoral court bars Lula from running