Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva takes up office this Sunday for a third, non-consecutive term at the helm of Brazil’s presidency after winning the October 30 elections against outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro, who left the country on October 30 Has. December , bound for the United States (USA)
At 15:05 local time (17:05 UTC), Lula was sworn in as the new President of Brazil for a third term, following those of 2003-2007 and 2007-2011. The President of the Senate and Congress, Rodrigo Pacheco, shortly thereafter proclaimed him President in full exercise of his functions.
The Praça dos Três Poderes, the place where the change of command takes place, reached maximum capacity for the ceremony around noon this Sunday, according to the Federal District Military Police (PMDF). The limit for the event was 30,000 people. For security reasons, the public will no longer be able to enter the site.
Local political figures and delegations from 120 countries have also arrived at the site. The first include ex-President José Sarney, ex-President Dilma Rousseff and Minister of the Federal Court of Justice (STF) Alexandre de Moraes.
The President traveled in a convertible to the ceremony site, where he will be received by representatives of the country’s other power organs.
The solemn session of the National Congress, which inaugurates Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Geraldo Alckmin as President and Vice-President, will be chaired by the President of the Senate and Congress, Rodrigo Pacheco.
He opened the session by remembering the deaths of football king Pelé and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. paid tribute. A minute’s silence was requested.
After taking the oath, Lula delivered his first speech as acting president.
Lula signs first measures as President of Brazil
Latin Press
The new President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, today, the day he took office, signed provisional measures and decrees fulfilling the commitments made during the electoral term.
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According to circles in his cabinet, quoted by the Brasil 247 portal, such provisions guarantee attention and visibility to areas that have historically been ignored at the South American giant.
In the normative acts, Lula initiates the reorganization of the arms control policy, guarantees the payment of 600 reais (about 112 dollars a month) for needy families, defines the structure of the presidium, the ministries, the fight against environmental crime, among others.
By issuing an interim measure, the ruler guarantees the payment of the 600 reais from Bolsa Familia for all more than 21 million beneficiary nuclei of the current income transfer program in the country.
This is the first measure to counter hunger and misery in the country.
Lula also extended the federal fuel tax exemption by an additional 60 days.
According to the sources, without the creation of public offices, the structure of the presidium and 37 ministries that make up the government opens up a new, more efficient management in the federal public administration.
Agencies share administrative structures, such as human resources and contracts, allowing departments to focus on public policy development and implementation.
In the case of arms, Lula signed a decree beginning the process of restructuring policy to control the war apparatus.
Aiming to increase the security of the Brazilian people, the order restricts access to weapons and ammunition and suspends the registration of new limited-use war equipment by hunters, marksmen and gatherers (CACs).
It is also suspending the approval of new shooting clubs until the new regulations are published.
The restrictions imposed by the decree signed by the new president include a ban on the transportation of municipal weapons, the practice of sport shooting by minors under the age of 18, and reducing the number of war teams from six to three ordinary citizens, among others.
After ownership was officially confirmed this Sunday, the mechanical extortionist returns to the main chair of the Planalto Palace, seat of the executive branch, for a third time as head of government number 39, 12 years after his last term as president (2006-2010).
The ex-union activist ran in parliamentary elections in 1989, 1994 and 1998 and was defeated. However, he emerged victorious in the court cases of 2002, 2006 and 2022.
Cubans celebrate the anniversary of their revolution in Brazil
HAVANA, 1 January (ACN) Members of the Cuban diplomatic corps in Brazil celebrated until the early hours of the morning the 64th anniversary of the victory of the revolution in their country, in the presence of Vice President Salvador Valdés.
Before the celebrations began, Valdés had a first contact with the members of the mission and spoke about the difficulties, achievements and challenges of the islanders, the Prensa Latina news agency reported.
The Vice President acknowledged that 2022 was a very difficult year for Cuba due to the tightening of the United States blockade and the attempt to apply 243 measures against the Caribbean island, which have been dragging on since Republican Donald Trump’s administration.
Added to this were the COVID-19 pandemic, climatic phenomena, technological accidents, the lack of resources for the maintenance of installations of the national electricity grid and mistakes made.
Despite these difficulties, Valdés explained, the will of the country’s top leadership to fight and face the challenges to move forward has always prevailed.
With this in mind, he reflected on the measures taken to combat the pandemic and the effectiveness of vaccination, which has led to 98 percent of the population being vaccinated against the Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus with Cuban medicines.
He alluded to inflation and the need to solve this scourge with supplies and the constant production of commodities.
He praised his people’s spirit of resilience and predicted that this year 2023 will be much better than the previous year, regardless of the crises and conflicts that the world is facing and that affect Cuba’s development and progress.
The chargé d’affaires of the island’s embassy in the South American giant, Ambassador Adolfo Curbelo, thanked Valdés for the insightful speech that is taking place this Sunday at the inauguration of the President-elect of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Lula bursts into tears as he speaks about rising inequality in Brazil
EFE
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who took office on Sunday, broke down in tears today in his first speech to thousands of Brazilians gathered in Brasilia as he spoke of the growing inequality in the country.
“The return of hunger is a crime, the gravest of all, against the Brazilian people. She is the daughter of inequality, who is the mother of all the evils holding Brazil back,” said Lula from the pulpit of the Planalto Presidential Palace.
The 77-year-old progressive leader was moved as he quoted families scavenging for food in the “garbage” and those queuing outside butcher shops to eat the leftovers and scrape the bones.
“Please help me…” the former union leader said through tears.
At that moment, thousands of Brazilians gathered in Three Powers Square sang in unison “Lula, warrior of the Brazilian people”.
“I take on the obligation before you to fight day and night all forms of inequality in our country, income, gender, race, in the labor market, in political representation, in health care, in education,” he listed.
He also condemned that “the richest 5% have the same percentage of wealth” as the rest of the country’s 95%.
“No one will be a second-class citizen,” he assured.
Lula also paid tribute to the supporters who watched with him during the 580 days he spent in prison between 2018 and 2019 on corruption convictions that were later overturned by the Supreme Court.
The progressive leader described his time in prison as “the most difficult moment of his life” but this Sunday’s inauguration was one of the “happiest”.