President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sworn in parliament in Brasilia and immediately delivered an emphatic speech with a strong message against his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro. And he summed it up by noting that he “was a real lying machine.”
He said that in these elections “real victory belongs to democracy” and described how “terrifying” the situation in which the former administration left the country. Devastation, dismantling and destruction were some of the words Lula used to refer to the previous administration.
“If we are here today, it is thanks to the political awareness of Brazilian society and the democratic front that we formed during this historic electoral campaign. Democracy was the big winner of these elections”Lula said.
The new president argued that in the elections he won on October 30 he had to face “the biggest mobilization of public and private resources never seen”. And he argued that this was “the most questionable campaign of lies and hatred in a conspiracy to manipulate and embarrass the Brazilian electorate”.
“Never have state resources been so subtracted for the benefit of an authoritarian power project,” he said.
He defended electoral justice and the electronic electoral system. He considered that the magistrates did “the truth of the polls should prevail over the violence of the detractors”.
I commit
The message was also full of his social commitment, aimed at solving the shortcomings of a country where hunger has returned, affecting 33 million Brazilians, an important layer of poverty. I emphasize that we have “a large part of the population that simply needs to survive.”
Throughout this campaign I have seen hope shine in the eyes of suffering people… who has lost essential rights, health, education,” he said. And you have once again attacked the Bolsonaro government by arguing that “education, culture, technology have been dismantled, social protection, school resources, public safety and the protection of forests have been destroyed”.
He then recalled his commitment in the two previous presidencies in which he was in office, on this matter achieve that Brazilians can eat three meals a day.
The president announced that all the measures that allowed the purchase of arms and ammunition will be cancelled“which have caused so much damage to Brazilian families. Brazil needs security, education, culture to make it a more just country ”, not weapons, she remarked.
He stressed his commitment to Brazil becoming a world leader again and reclaimed Mercosur among other South American integration organizations.
Brasilia. Special delivery
Source: Clarin
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