The supporters of Lula da Silva are arriving at the camp at the Mane Garrincha Stadium to participate this Sunday in the inauguration ceremony as president of Brazil. At the change of command, 300,000 people are expected to attend and, as confirmed, authorities from 50 countries will attend.
Thousands of supporters of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are arriving at a camp at the Mane Garrincha Stadium to participate in the inauguration of the President-elect of Brazil. Authorities from 50 countries will also participate in the change of command.
Twenty years after the first time, Lula da Silva will assume the Presidency of Brazil this Sunday 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 and by just 1.8 percentage points. who this Friday left for the United States.
Extensive operation at investiture ceremony
The inauguration ceremony will be held in the midst of a vast police operation, which will mobilize some 15,000 agents from all the State security forces, due to threats from violent groups of the Bolsonaro extreme right.
These radicals have caused serious disorders in Brasilia in recent weeks and They have even tried to blow up a tanker truck at the airport with a homemade bomb.
According to the authorities, these more violent cells are part of a movement that on October 31, one day after the elections, installed in front of the barracks to demand a coup that prevents the investiture of Lula and keep Bolsonaro in power.
Despite this, a great party is expected, since the attendance of some 300,000 people is projected, for a concert that will begin early to end at dawn on Monday, with fifty popular artists.
Bolsonaro’s escape
The far-right leader, who still does not recognize Lula’s victory, finished 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 about three months. .
After 60 days of almost absolute silence, he asked his people to keep a harsh opposition to Lula’s “communism” 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 opposition until now, 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 successor, that he will possibly receive it from a group of people who will symbolize the “diversity of democratic Brazil”, according to sources from Lula’s team.
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 presence of foreign figures at investiture
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 Brazil, the only country in which the leaders take office on such an uncomfortable date as 1 from January.
There will be a total of delegations from 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 in Brazil considered an “example of democracy”, Conservative President Luis Lacalle Pou will travel to Brasilia along 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.