Lula assumes the Presidency of Brazil this Sunday with authorities from 50 countries and in a festive atmosphere

Twenty years after the first time, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will assume the Presidency of Brazil in the presence of authorities from fifty countries and with a great popular festival that will bring together some 300,000 people. Lula was in power for two consecutive periods, between 2003 and 2010, and returns to the Presidency at the age of 77 and after a very tough electoral campaign in which he defeated the far-right Jair Bolsonaro in the second round by just 1.8 percentage points. who this Friday unexpectedly left for the United States.

the ceremony of inauguration will be held in the midst of a vast police operation, which will mobilize some 15,000 agents from all security forces of the State, due to the threats from violent groups of the Bolsonaro extreme right.

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These radicals have caused serious disorders in Brasilia in the last few weeks and up to They have tried to blow up a tanker truck at the airport with a homemade bomb.

According to the authorities, These most violent cells are part of a movement that on October 31, one day after the elections, set up in front of the barracks to demand a coup. that prevents the investiture of Lula and keep Bolsonaro in power.

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But if there are fears, there will also be a great party. Some 300,000 people are expected for a concert that will begin early to end at dawn on Monday, with fifty popular artists.

The life of Lula da Silva. (AFP).

THE “FLIGHT” OF BOLSONARO AND THE DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE RADICALS

The leader of the extreme rightwho still does not recognize the victory of Lulafinished discouraging the most radical this Friday, when He decided to leave the country and go to Orlando (United States), where, according to his relatives, he intends to stay for three months.

After 60 days of almost absolute silence, he asked his people to maintain a strong opposition to the “communism” of Lula and traveled on a presidential plane amid harsh criticism from all political sectors.

On Bolsonaro’s social networks, he was branded as a “coward” and “traitor.” In the hitherto opposition, His departure was considered another example of the authoritarianism that this captain of the Army reserve, defender of the dictatorships that prevailed in Latin America half a century ago, imprinted on his mandate.

The only practical consequence of what many call “flight” will be that Bolsonaro will break the tradition of handing over the presidential sash to his successorwho will possibly receive it from a group of people who will symbolize the “diversity of democratic Brazil”, according to sources from the team of Lula.

The future of the extreme right is now uncertain, although this movement will retain relative strength in the new Parliament, also elected in October and which will take office next February, with a clear conservative majority, although more moderate than Bolsonarismo.

THE LARGEST FOREIGN REPRESENTATION AT AN INVESTMENT

Lula’s return to power has generated great expectations in the world and his inauguration will have the largest foreign representation seen to date in an investiture in Brazilthe only country in which the leaders take office on a date as uncomfortable as January 1.

They will be in total delegations of fifty countries that include twenty heads of state and government, headed by the king of Spain and the leaders of Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, as well as the presidents of Germany and Portugal.

In the case of Uruguay, and in what many considered in Brazil an “example of democracy”, the conservative president Luis Lacalle Pou will travel to Brasilia together with his predecessors José ‘Pepe’ Mujica and Julio María Sanguinetti.

The vast majority of the foreign delegations will arrive in the Brazilian capital on Sunday morning, and an as yet unconfirmed number of leaders will remain until Monday, when Lula will receive them in separate audiences on what will be his first effective day in office.

Source: Elcomercio