Brazil’s new President has stepped up security measures
2023.01.01 13:21
Brazil’s new President has stepped up security measures
Budrigannews.com – Following threats of violence from supporters of his far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro, leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will be sworn in as president of Brazil on Sunday in the capital.
After the most contentious election in a generation, the atmosphere in Brasilia was tense. Brasilia police said that on Sunday, a man tried to enter the esplanade for the inauguration while carrying fireworks and a knife.
Lula will wear the presidential sash at the Planalto palace in front of a crowd of 30,000 supporters after the ceremony in Congress begins at 3 p.m. (1800 GMT), and approximately 300,000 people are anticipated to gather to celebrate on Brasilia’s esplanade.
After a hiatus that saw him spend a year and a half in prison on corruption convictions that were later overturned, Lula, who is now 77 years old, narrowly defeated Bolsonaro in October to win an unprecedented third term as president.
During the commodity boom that bolstered the economy, the former union leader lifted millions of Brazilians out of poverty while serving as president of the Workers Party (PT) from 2003 to 2010.
Presently, he faces the overwhelming test of working on Brazil’s stale economy while likewise joining a country that has become horrendously energized under Bolsonaro.
“Lula has a lot on her plate. According to Creomar de Souza, director of Dharma Political Risk consultancy in Brasilia, “He will have the difficult mission of restoring normality and predictability in Brazil, and above all, to rapidly deliver results that improve the quality of life for its inhabitants.”
Friday, Bolsonaro left Brazil for Florida, removing himself from any immediate legal risks associated with his time in office and avoiding having to hand over the sash to his rival, whose victory he has yet to acknowledge.
In a climate of vandalism and violence, his supporters have been protesting for two months about the fraud in the election and have called for a military coup to prevent Lula from running for office again.
A Bolsonaro supporter was arrested on Christmas Eve for making a bomb that was found on a truck loaded with aviation fuel at the entrance to Brasilia airport. He admitted that he was trying to cause chaos so that a military intervention would happen.
After Bolsonaro’s defeat at the polls in October, acting President Hamilton Mourao criticized his former boss for failing to lead the country and allowing anti-democratic sentiment to flourish in a thinly veiled dig.
Mourao stated in a speech late on Saturday that “leaders who were supposed to reassure and unite the nation… allowed silence or inopportune and deleterious protagonism to create an atmosphere of chaos and social disintegration.”
Mourao criticized environmental backsliding following deforestation in the Amazon (NASDAQ:), but he defended Bolsonaro’s four years in power for leaving a strong economy. reached a high of 15 years.
Tens of thousands of Lula supporters arrived in central Brasilia for Sunday’s celebrations. Authorities sent 10,000 police officers and soldiers to increase security and search the attendees, who were prohibited from bringing anything resembling bottles, cans, flag masts, or toy guns. Additionally, civilians were temporarily prohibited from carrying guns.
According to the organizers, there will be delegations from 50 nations and 19 heads of state and governments, including the Spanish king.
Before taking off for Florida on Friday, Bolsonaro gave a moving speech in which he called the Christmas Eve bomb plot a “terrorist act” and thanked his supporters who had gathered outside army barracks all over the country to demand a coup.
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