Brazil: Lula da Silva holds first cabinet meeting, says he will fire ministers who do wrong

The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, warned his ministers this Fridayand will fire them in case “they do Something wrong“But he made it clear that he will be by their side through thick and thin and that he won’t abandon them” in the middle of the road.

The president expressed it during a speech that opened the meeting first cabinet meeting of his government.

In his speech at Palazzo Planalto opposite the 37 ministers that make up his cabinet, Lula stressed summoned people with differing opinions be able to “reach the same conclusions to rebuild the country”.

“Anyone who does something wrong already knows: that person will simply, in the most polite way possible, invited to leave the government. And if he commits something serious, he will have to place himself at the disposal of justice,” Lula said in her speech, in what appeared to be an allusion to corruption crimes.

The president also highlighted the “popular happiness” recorded on Sunday January 1, during the feast of his assumption in Brasilia.

“Better than the hiring of Perón in 1973”

In this sense, he said that the writer and journalist Fernando Morais called him this week, his biographerwho has always maintained that the best party for his assumption of office had been in 1973 with that of the third presidency of the Juan Domingo Peron in Argentina.

“He said that investiture was the most beautiful he had ever seen, but that this one beats him 10 to 0 to what he said was the most beautiful he had seen in his life, in person,” said Lula, who called for the “union” of the families after “consolidated hatred” over the past four years during the administration of Jair Bolsonaro.

“We are not a government of one philosophy, of equal thoughts, being different we have to make an effort to build the same,” he said.

“There will be no ideological vetoes”

In this context, he stated that there will be no ideological vetoes make agreements with Congress and carry forward the proposals “in favor of the people and of democracy”.

Lula has assured that he will have it a “hard” task in the relationship with Congress, He warned that rural entrepreneurs who violate the environmental law will be held accountable and will have to rebuild public policies that have been abandoned, citing the issue of employment, salary, the presence of doctors throughout the country and the quality of primary education .

The relationship with Congress

Lula said that its management will be entrusted to “very competent” politicians and technicians.

“We need to know that this government It is also established by political agreementsbecause it is useless to have one who studied at Harvard but who does not have the ability to carry out the projects in its dealings with Congress,” he said.

“I will have the best relationship with Congress, I am willing to talk to everyone if necessary to approve the projects, there is no ideological veto or forbidden issue to talk about,” he said.

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