The love story of Lula da Silva Y Janja has no lyrics and chords Boy Buarque but he does appear as the protagonist. It was on Christmas Eve 2017, after a charity game for Politeama, a team of Chico’s friends. Lula played forward, Janja She was a spectator and they left together. Last New Year, the relationship was confirmed at a dinner for very close friends. Less than five years later, Luiz Inácio Da Silva is the newly elected president of Brazil. Rosangela Silva she does not detach herself from it, and is already called the Brazilian Evita by the political environment.
Janja was born on August 27, 1966 in União da Victoria, a small city in the State of Paraná. She joined the PT at age 17, began studying Social Sciences and married a history teacher with whom she had no children.
In 2003, she was hired as an assistant to Jorge Samekfriend of Lula, at the Itaipu hydroelectric plant. The first photo together is of a visit by Lula to the power plant. A former political ally swears that they saw each other since before the death of his last wife, Marisa Leticia, in February 2017.
During the 580 days Lula He was imprisoned in the headquarters of the Superintendence of the Federal Police, in Curitiba, his influence was growing. He strengthened contacts with artists and influencers and got the “family” permit that allowed him to see Lula every Thursday. “We wrote more than 500 letters to each other, he brought me food every night and washed my clothes,” he said. Lula. Janja received red roses.
The wedding party for 150 guests, on May 18 this year, will be remembered for the bride’s gift: a new version of the 1989 campaign jingle, “Lula lá. Sem medo de ser feliz”, now with Janja and his musician friends as protagonists. For the environment, it was too important a decision to leave it in the hands of a single person with no political experience. From that day on, all campaign events began with Janja singing the jingle, before the speech of Lula.
Defender of the rights of women and animals, Janja wants to resignify the role of the first lady. It already started. Her power expanded during the campaign. She interrupts any meeting to catch up with Lula a little plastic bottle of water but she also chooses guests and even those who get on planes with her husband. She participates in decisions, monitors messages on social networks and makes old allies uncomfortable. Since January 1, the Alvorada Palace, designed by the greatest Brazilian architect of all time, Oscar Niemeyer, has been waiting for them.
by Pablo de la Fuente
