Amount Quote by Simon Romero
“Well, Lula has an incredible amount of sway still. He's someone who came up from very humble origins, so his life trajectory is something that many people in Brazil still identify with. So within the governing Workers' Party, he has a lot of power. He has power to name ministers, some people say. And he's very close with the current president as well. She's his handpicked successor.”
![“Not in the sense of investigators saying that she [Lula] was personally enriched as a result of the scandal, but there are new reports emerging this week claiming that she may have had a hand in trying to derail the investigations. She was chairwoman of the board for years, so she has come under a…” quote by Simon Romero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7a9/simon-romero-61362_boards_not-in-the-sense-of-investigators-saying_835757.jpg)
