Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva He assumed his third term as president of Brazil this Sunday. At the official ceremony, however, there was a great absentee: Jair Bolsonaro, outgoing president, who ran for re-election and lost in the polls against the leader of the PT. In his parallel schedule, Bolsonaro spent the weekend in Orlando, USA, where he shared his time Between her fried chicken delight and photos with followersaway from Planalto.
The now former president of Brazil boarded the official plane last Thursday, in his final hours as Brazil’s chief executive. The journey has surprised everyone ever since, despite the fact that he had broken the silence into which he plunged after his electoral defeat – he had given no sign of wanting to avoid the transfer of command.
fate was Orlando, on the Florida peninsula, where it has a significant fan base. stayed in a luxurious palace It would belong to José Aldo da Silva, a mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter.
As reported UOL, the house has nine bedrooms. Among the most extravagant variants, Bolsonaro was able to choose a fourth set in the movie Minions or, more traditionally, leaning towards a resounding American symbol: Mickey Mouse.
Besides, the house was made of it renovations in the front to protect privacy of the then president of Brazil. Security personnel have also been reinforced.
over there, behind the walls, Bolsonaro celebrated the New Year. And he only went out for a few runs on comfortable terrain.
One of the receptions Bolsonaro received was at an Orlando apartment building with a strong Brazilian community. His collaborators have released photographs of the former president hugging or greeting his followers. In one postcard he was seen wearing a club shirt Paranese Athletic (The president of that club called to vote for him last October and the team also took to the field in a shirt to support him). In another he was wearing a sober dark blue sweater.
In another stage of his rest, on Saturday he did a escape to a KFC fried chicken joint -Kentucky Fried Chicken, another emblem of the United States-, with the appropriate portrait issued by his inner circle.
During his tenure and after show a profile of simplicityBolsonaro often resorted to showing himself in a fast-food business lunch situation and in passing, attacking agendas he needed to enhance your conservatism.
Like Cristina Kirchner, Bolsonaro did not hand over the presidential sash
While resting in Orlando, where his 2019-2023 presidential term has expired, Lula da Silva received the presidential sash this Sunday. in one episode almost unprecedented in Brazill, there was no command transfer with the predecessor.
In the Planalto Palace, a black woman and Raon chieftainI went up the ramp. Already in front of the president, he put the presidential sash on him. Beyond Bolsonaro’s absence, Lula’s entourage loaded the episode with a strong symbolic attribute. In addition to the two of them, other civilians also took to the stage, all representatives of the Brazilian people.
The last one antecedent of a foul at the official ceremony in Brazil dates back to 1985when the dictator Joao Figueredo did not want to participate in the handover to the Joseph Sarney (Actually, the president-elect had been Tancredo Neves, but his death before taking office meant that Deputy Sarney was in charge of the country).
In America, however, there are closer precedents. In Argentina, Cristina Kirchner avoided meeting Mauricio Macri in 2015, after Cambiemos defeated the Scioli-Zannini formula in the elections after eight years of Cristina at the Casa Rosada.
The situation, criticized by the opposition, arose because the current vice president wanted to hold the protocol ceremony in the Legislative Assembly, in Congress. Instead Macri preferred him to be in La Rosada.
With both parties seeking justifications in the National Constitution, a circumstantial vacuum was generated in the Executive. As justice indicated that Cristina should leave her place in the first minute of the day, it was Frederick Pinedo -then temporarily presiding over the Senate- which held the national headquarters during that temporary intervaluntil Macri was sworn in and invested in La Rosada.
The other background is By Donald Trump. After the election in which he lost to Joe Biden, the tycoon announced that he would not participate in hiring the Democrat.
“One of the few things we agree on. It’s a good thing it’s not being presented,” assessed Biden, who called Trump’s handling a “shame”. Indeed, in the previous weeks, Congress had been invaded by Trumpist fundamentalists, in what is known as the “storming of the Capitol”, who were trying to prevent Biden from coming to power.
That time, Trump has chosenor the seaside club of Mar-a-Lago, in Miami. A few kilometers away, Bolsonaro followed his admired colleague. And, without having yet recognized the electoral fall and still with allusions to the 2022 elections in the headers of his social networks, he found refuge.
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Source: Clarin
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