It never takes long for Brazilian voters to regret their choice. After the restoration of democracy in 1985, some eighteen year went by before the country’s electorate turned to an outsider in near desperation over successive failed presidencies. Long discarded as a dangerous extremist by a nation that traditionally seeks compromise and prefers to avoid confrontation, Workers’ Party frontman Luiz Inácio ‘Lula’ da Silva was reluctantly dispatched to the Palacio do Planalto – the Brazilian seat of power.