Lula’s partner accused Bolsonaro of leaving the Presidential Palace “in poor condition” and denounced that “objects of art are missing”

Major damage, leaks and missing art. The official residence of the president of Brazil left in poor condition after the four years of government of the far-right Jair Bolsonaro, said the wife of the new occupant, the leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

The brand new first lady, Rosangela “Janja” da Silva, received a team from TV Globothe television station with the highest audience in the country, in the Alvorada palacethe presidential residence in Brasilia, to highlight what she considers to be the appalling condition of the building.

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important spaces of modernist icon were “deteriorated”, said Da Silva, who married Lula in May.

before the cameras It showed smashed windows, torn carpets, broken hardwood floors, a leak-stained ceiling, a banquet hall devoid of furniture. and other headaches for any new occupants.

He said an unknown amount of furniture and art is missing, sun-damaged or left lying on the ground, such as a 19th-century religious piece.

While electronic equipment was scattered in the library where Bolsonaro used to give his customary live broadcasts through social networks to their followers.

The first lady, 56, said the presidential couple will carry out renovation work and repair the damageand will take an inventory of the residence’s furnishings and art before you move in.

“This building is on the register” of the national historic places, he told TV Globo, while giving a tour of the palace in an interview published Thursday.

It is very important that the Brazilian people know what the state of conservation of the Palácio da Alvorada is. In the end, he is the donator of the property, two moves, two works of art. My responsibility is for my husband and we will take good care of all of you. This is what we are going to do. https://t.co/qrNeypCNoo

—Janja Lula Silva (@JanjaLula) January 6, 2023

“We are thinking of making a record of the things that are inside the Alvorada as well, so that this does not happen again, that a ruler comes and removes the objects that are patrimony of the Brazilian State”.

Lula, from 77 years old, he knows the mansion well, as he lived there during his first two presidencies (2003-2010) with his then wife Marisa Leticia, now deceased. Seeing his current condition, he was “devastated,” Janja confessed.

The white building designed by the renowned Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer was then occupied by his successor and ally, Dilma Roussef, until 2016, when she was deposed by Congress.

Lula, who overcame imprisonment on corruption charges to return to the presidency on January 1, returns to the residence after being inhabited by center-right former president Michel Temer and Bolsonaro.

Bolsonaro, who left Brazil for Florida, in the United States, two days before the end of his term, could not be contacted.

Source: Elcomercio

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