Lula’s third term: one by one the decrees signed a few hours after taking office

Not more than a handful of hours have passed since the inauguration and the new president of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has already launched a series of “decrees” to stop his administration from starting public policies with the branding of former president Jair Bolsonaro.

In the list of decrees is the one that suspends the flexibility policy for the acquisition of weaponsand another who withdraws immediately the privatization program by companies such as the Petrobras oil company, the Correios logistics company and the Brazilian Communication Company (EBC), the public media network.

other decree re-established the Amazon Fund, an international donation box commanded by Norway and Germanyand had been despised by the Bolsonaro government for the productive development of the Amazonian communities.

In his first speech as interim president, Lula said before Congress that he will give priority to forest conservation policyhe promised to work towards achieving “zero deforestation” and place the issue high on his foreign agenda.

Weapons

Among the other measures Bolsonaro suppressed are the decrees authorizing the sale and possession of weapons for Hunters, shooters and collectors (CAC, acronym in Portuguese)

Lula’s order suspended registration of new weapons for civilians to acquire. With this provision, the authorization to open new shooting circles was also suspended until new legislation was introduced and the number of weapons that a civilian can have at home was reduced from six to three.

Bolsonaro had given some kind of green light to the arms market thanks to the elimination of controls, the extension of the types of authorized weapons and the transfer of CAC cards to hundreds of thousands of people.

In his farewell speech before his trip to the United States, Bolsonaro on Friday defended the policy of arming the population because, thanks to it, “security has increased” and killings have decreased, he said.

social plans

Lula also signed the regulation to pay $120 from the Bolsa Família social plan with additional $30 per child to each worker with no registered income, under a constitutional amendment that he managed to pass before his hiring with the agreement of Congress.

decrees with secrets

On the first day, in addition to putting the cabinet in charge, Lula signed the regulation that overthrow decrees with secrets of a hundred years that Bolsonaro had dictated on various topics, including his vaccination booklet and visits to Palazzo Planalto and Palazzo Alvorada (official residence).

Lula instructed the government prosecutor’s office to evaluate the secret nature of these documents before releasing them.

Lula took office for the third time after thwarting Bolsonaro’s re-election bid. His return to power marks the culmination of a political renaissance that captivates his supporters and annoys his rivals a lot in a highly polarized nation.

“Our message to Brazil is one of hope and reconstruction,” he promised.

Agencies