On March 23, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva finally and definitively won his ongoing legal battle. After years of judicial harassment, culminating in a six-hundred-day prison sentence, the Supreme Court has finally ruled that former judge Sérgio Moro was biased in his ruling and that Lula’s conviction should be overturned. That means that Lula has been unleashed to take on Jair Bolsonaro in the coming 2022 general elections.

A few weeks ago, another Supreme Court judge, Edson Fachin, reached the conclusion that Sérgio Moro had acted beyond his jurisdiction in trying Lula. But that ruling was too little, too late: Lula was the victim not of a legal technicality but of a proven judicial plot in which federal prosecutors and a federal judge colluded to guarantee his conviction.

The Supreme Court has now found that during the trial, the prosecuting team illegally wiretapped Lula’s lawyers’ phones and coordinated each stage of the trial alongside Moro in order to ensure a conviction ruling. In a further twist, Moro later accepted an appointment as Minister of Justice under Bolsonaro’s government.