There is nothing modest about that achievement, given Brazil’s traditional institutional instability and the series of major corruption scandals that engulfed Lula’s government in 2005 and 2006. Lula survived those scandals and did not move to amend the constitution in order to seek a third term, though some in Brazil pressed him to do so.
考虑到一直困扰着巴西的制度动荡和2005、2006年几乎吞噬卢拉政府的系列重大腐败丑闻，这一成绩的取得绝非易事。卢拉在那场丑闻中幸免于难，而且也顶住了来自巴西某些势力的压力，并未修改宪法谋求第三次连任。