The new president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvagave this Sunday, hours after taking office, the first step to revoke controversial measures issued by former president Jair Bolsonaro on weapons and the environment.
The ruler, on the same day of his inauguration, signed a total of thirteen decreeswhich mostly They prepare the ground for a broad review of many of the policies promoted by the previous ultra-right government.
Regarding weapons, Lula suspended the issuance of new permits for the purchase and creation of shooting clubsordered that a new registry be made of all the weapons acquired by civilians in the last four years and that a working group be created in the Government dedicated to defining a new disarmament policy.
In the environmental section, determined the reactivation of the so-called Amazon Fundset up with donations from Germany and Norway to contribute to the protection of the Amazon and which had been suspended by Bolsonaro’s decision in 2019.
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That fund currently has about 600 million dollars, which the new government will rescue and use in programs that will be defined by the Ministry of the Environment.
Lula also decided to revoke a decree issued by Bolsonaro in the last days of his term, according to which the licenses for the exploitation of mineral resources in the Amazon region and even on indigenous lands were extended.
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Another decision formalized by Lulawhich was one of his campaign promises, has been to determine that a series of Bolsonaro decrees that had established a hundred-year secret on various issues of public administration or even on personal matters of the now ex-president and his family be reviewed within 30 days.
Among the latter, Bolsonaro He had included in that classified information everything related to his health, which prevented society from knowing if he really had not been vaccinated against covid, as he has claimed up to now.
Another of the decrees signed this Sunday by Lula He also fulfilled one of his campaign promises and excluded the state-owned Petrobras, Correos and Empresa Brasil de Comunicación (EBC) from a privatization plan drawn up by the Bolsonaro government.