The Brazilian president met this Thursday with Lula’s deputy in an off-schedule meeting at the Planalto Presidential Palace. “It was positive (the meeting). The president invited me to go to his cabinet (…), and reiterated the government’s willingness to pass on all the information so that there is a transition guided by the public interest,” he said. Alckmin.
“The transition has already begun,” Alckmin added to journalists.who then had a “helpful” and “objective” conversation with Ciro Nogueira, chief of staff of the outgoing president.
Commissioned by Lula to coordinate the change of government, Alckmin, A centrist who was governor of Sao Paulo, he had already maintained contacts with Bolsonaro representatives, amid the uncertainty caused by the president’s two-day silence and roadblocks after his narrow defeat in the ballot on Sunday.
Alckmin, The 69-year-old affirmed that he will define the members of the transition team after meeting in the coming days with the 77-year-old president-elect, who, he said, is taking a break after months of an intense electoral campaign.
Lula’s team, which by law can include up to 50 officials, will work from Monday and for the next two months in the offices of the Banco do Brasil Cultural Centera huge building near a lake in the Brazilian capital.
The meeting was also attended by the head of Lula’s Workers’ Party (PT), Gleisi Hoffman, and the coordinator of Lula’s government program, Aloizio Mercadante.
Budget Review
Previously, Alckmin held a meeting with the rapporteur for the budget in the Senate with the aim of looking for ways to include Lula’s campaign promises in federal spending in 2023who assumes power on January 1.
The leftist leader will have to face headwinds to get his reforms approved in Congress: the conservatives obtained notable results in the October legislative elections and Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party (PL) will be the main force in both chambers.
The first meeting between representatives of Lula and Bolsonaro took place as street protests and roadblocks by supporters of the far-right president, furious at Lula’s victory, ebbed.
Alckmin strongly denounced the blockades, pointing out that they can compromise “people’s health, the supply of hospitals” and bring “harm” to the economy. “The right to circulate is sacred.”
lockdowns continue
After the narrow victory of Lula, who already governed the country between 2003 and 2010, Bolsonaro supporters blocked roads across the country since Sunday, causing freight and travel problems.
On Wednesday, thousands of Bolsonaristas gathered in front of barracks in the main cities of Brazil to ask for a military intervention.
In janeiro river, just a few dozen people remained this Thursday morning in front of a military barrackssome of them after spending the night in tents.
“I think we are going to have a communist dictatorship” under Lula, Jessica dos Santos Ferreira, 31, told AFP. “He is a thief, he is not an example for my 11-year-old son,” she added, this entrepreneur willing to stay in place until the alleged military intervention arrives.
“This is our last chance!” a man yelled at the crowd asking them not to give up.
The road authorities reported that there were 32 partial or total blockades this Thursday -compared to more than 250 on Tuesday-after Bolsonaro, who has not openly acknowledged his electoral setback, asked his supporters to put an end to those actions.
The president of the electoral authority, Alexandre de Moraesdenounced the roadblocks and indicated that those “who are practicing anti-democratic acts will be treated as criminals.”
“There is no way to protest against a democratically disclosed result with illegal, anti-democratic and criminal demonstrations”he claimed.
Some cases generated controversy, such as a viralized video showing Bolsonarists supposedly giving a Nazi salute during a protest against Lula’s victory in Santa Catarina (south).
The video – which has accumulated some two million views on social networks since Tuesday, according to the AFP fact-check team – drew condemnation from the German ambassador and the Israelite Confederation of Brazil (Conib).
However, an official investigation preliminarily established that “there is no evidence” that it was an act of apology for Nazism.
Source: Ambito
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