Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is present and 39th Presedent of The Country Brazil since 1 January 2023
Date of Birth: 27 October 1945
Birth Place: Caetés, Pernambuco, Brazil
Residence: Palácio da Alvorada
Party: PT
Family: Five Childrens, Maria de Lourdes Ribeiro(married in 1969; died in 1971), Marisa Letícia Casa(married in 1974; died in 2017), Rosângela da Silva (married in 2022).
About: Lula is a member of the Workers’ Party, he previously served as the 35th president from 2003 to 2010.Lula, who comes from a working class background, moved to So Paulo as a young child with his family from Pernambuco. He started working as a metalworker and joined a union as a youngster. After quitting school in the second grade to work and support his family, he did not learn to read until he was ten years old. At the age of eight, he worked as a street vendor in Guarujá. He had a job in So Paulo as a street seller and shoe shiner when he was 12 years old. His first official employment was in a warehouse in 1960, when he was just 14 years old. He began working as a press operator trainee in 1961 while enrolled in a vocational programme at a metallurgical company that made screws.
