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| - Ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has emerged as a potential contender in Brazil's 2022 election since a judge overturned his corruption convictions -- a ruling upheld Thursday by the full Supreme Court. Here is a list of key dates in the life of the popular but tarnished leftist leader. - October 27, 1945: Lula is born to a poor farming family in Brazil's northeast. His family moves when he is seven to the state of Sao Paulo to escape hunger. - 1975: He becomes president of the metal workers' union, having worked in the trade since the age of 14. - 1978-80: At the height of Brazil's military dictatorship, Lula leads major strikes in the industrial suburbs and is jailed for a month for his role. - 1980: Lula co-founds the leftist Workers' Party (PT) and goes on to take part in the creation, in 1983, of the Unified Workers' Central (CUT), which becomes Brazil's largest trade union federation. - 1986: He is elected to Congress. - 2003: Lula becomes Brazil's first leftist president, and the first to come from a working-class background, after winning the 2002 election. Under his social programs 29 million Brazilians escape poverty, although inequality remains. He is reelected in 2006. - 2005: He removes top Workers' Party officials over corruption scandals. - 2011: He leaves power to designated successor Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's first woman president. - 2016: With corruption allegations against Lula mounting, the Supreme Court blocks Rousseff's appointment of Lula as her chief of staff, which would have given him ministerial immunity. She is then impeached in August over unrelated allegations of fudging the government's accounts. - July 2017: Lula is found guilty of receiving a bribe from a Brazilian construction company in return for contracts with state oil company Petrobras. He is sentenced to nine and a half years behind bars. - January 2018: He loses an appeal, and his sentence is increased to 12 years and one month. - April 2018: After losing a bid to delay the start of his sentence, Lula is ordered to turn himself in within 24 hours. - August 2018: A majority of Brazil's electoral court bars Lula from running in the October election. - October 2018: Far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro is elected president. - February 2019: Lula is sentenced to nearly 13 years for accepting renovation work by two construction companies on a farmhouse in exchange for ensuring they won contracts with Petrobras. - April 2019: A Superior Court of Justice panel reduces Lula's sentence to eight years and 10 months on appeal. - November 2019: The Supreme Court overturns a rule requiring convicted criminals to go to jail after losing their first appeal, paving the way for Lula's release. - March 2021: A Supreme Court judge overturns Lula's convictions, ruling the court that issued them lacked jurisdiction. The ruling restores his eligibility to run for office. - April 15, 2020: The full Supreme Court upholds the ruling on appeal in an 8-3 decision. bur-jhb/mdl
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