Significance: Regardless of the merits of the case, condemnation by STF would feed into the PT’s narrative that it is being persecuted by politically-motivated judges. While Operation Car Wash still retains a wide degree of public support, the PT has successfully motivated its base by questioning the objectivity of the investigation’s prosecuting judges. Nowhere has this narrative been more successful than in the case of former president Lula da Silva, who remains the party’s presidential candidate in the 7 October general election despite languishing in jail following his corruption conviction.
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