Lula wishes a Christmas of reconciliation after polarized elections

The elected president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvasaid this Saturday that he hopes that Christmas this year will serve to promote reconciliation between families and the country itself, after the polarized presidential elections in October that he won and that caused divisions.

“I want Christmas to be one of reconciliation of families and of reconciliation of Brazil with itself,” the progressive leader, who on January 1 will assume his third term as head of state of Brazil, said in a Christmas message posted on his Twitter account. Brazil.

The leader and founder of the leftist Workers’ Party (PT) said he was sad to learn that many Brazilian families will not be together to celebrate Christmas “because they were divided by political hatred that pitted parents against children and brothers against brothers.”

The October presidential elections, in which Lula defeated the current president, the far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro, in the second round by less than two percentage points, were the most polarized in recent decades in Brazil, divided the country in two and generated radicalization and even violent acts.

Even two months after the elections, the most radical groups of Bolsonaro supporters do not recognize the victory of the progressive leader and are camped out in front of barracks throughout the country to ask the military for a coup d’état to prevent Lula’s inauguration.

In a message of “Merry Christmas” and reconciliation addressed to the 215 million Brazilians, the president-elect said he was equally sad because many families will not be able to celebrate because they are hungry, unemployed or suffering from inflation or debt.

“I also know that this is a particularly sad time for hundreds of thousands of families who lost their loved ones to covid and for many others who lost everything due to the heavy rains that affected several states,” he added.

But he clarified that his Christmas message is to transmit hope, both the hope that allows everyone to move forward despite obstacles and the hope that, he said, the majority of Brazilian voters deposited at the polls in October.

“I am going to work more than I did in previous governments so that Christmas for everyone, especially those who need it the most, is better next year,” said the progressive leader who already governed Brazil for two terms between 2003 and 2010.

“May this Christmas, despite the difficulties, mark the beginning of the reconstruction of Brazil and may we rebuild, within each one of us, the spirit of union, fraternity, peace, love and hope,” he added.

Source: Elcomercio

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