The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, promised this Sunday in a speech to his supporters at the Planalto Palace, shortly after receiving the presidential sash, that he will govern for 215 million Brazilians and not only for their voters.
“I also want to address those who opted for other candidates. I will govern for the 215 million Brazilians and not just for those who voted for me. The rear-view mirror of a past ”, said the new Brazilian president, in a speech in which he was moved several times.
“No one is interested in a country on a permanent war footing, or a family that lives in disharmony. It’s time to reunite with friends and family, broken by hate speech and the spread of so many lies. The Brazilian people reject the violence of a small minority,” he added.
The progressive leader recalled a speech he gave after the result of the second round of the presidential elections, on October 30, about the need to unite Brazil.
“There are not two Brazils. We are one country, one great nation. We are all Brazilians, and we share the same virtue: we never give up,” he said.
“Even though all the flowers are plucked from us, one by one, petal by petal, we know that it is always time to plant again, and that spring will come. And spring has arrived. Today, joy seizes Brazil, arm in arm armed with hope,” she added.
The Brazilian president also reaffirmed his campaign commitment, which will be to fight inequality and extreme poverty, and promised that he will work so that all people have the right to food, in reference to the 33 million Brazilians who currently suffer from hunger. .
“Hunger is the daughter of inequality, which is the mother of the great evils that delay the development of Brazil. Inequality diminishes our country of continental dimensions, by dividing it into parts that cannot be recognized”, said Lula da Silva.
While speaking, Lula da Silva was moved and was interrupted on a few occasions by his followers who packed the space in front of the Planalto Palace to listen to his first speech to the population, calling him a “warrior of the Brazilian people.”
The official also mentioned that in the country there is “so much abandonment and discouragement in the streets. Mothers digging for garbage, looking for food for their children. Entire families sleeping outdoors, facing the cold, the rain and the fear”.
“Queuing in front of the butcher shops, looking for bones to alleviate hunger. And, at the same time, queues waiting to buy private jets. Such a social abyss is an obstacle to the construction of a just and democratic society, and of a prosperous society”. and modern economy”, shot Lula da Silva, highlighting the enormous social inequality present in the country.
Lula da Silva took office today as the 39th President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, with a term that runs until December 31, 2026.
After passing through Congress, the new president of Brazil went to the Planalto Palace where he went up the ramp in front of Praça dos Três Poderes to speak before an audience of up to 40,000 people, the limit authorized by security.
Organizers estimate that at least 300,000 people are in Brasilia for the progressive leader’s inauguration in an event that includes a music festival.
Lula da Silva will go to the Itamaraty Palace, headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to hold a reception closed to the public with several guests from more than 65 foreign delegations, including heads of state, vice presidents, heads of diplomacy, special envoys and representatives of international organizations.
The celebrations will be attended by the Portuguese President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, João Gomes Cravinho, and the former Prime Minister and personal friend of Lula da Silva, José Sócrates.
Also the presidents of Angola, João Lourenço; from Timor-Leste, José Ramos-Horta; from Cape Verde, José Maria Neves; from Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, and the executive secretary of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), Zacarias da Costa, will be present.
Lula da Silva (Workers’ Party) is the first head of state to serve three terms in recent Brazilian history. A six-time candidate for the Presidency of the Republic of Brazil, he was the first labor leader to reach the most important position in the country’s political leadership.
Source: TSF
