The Brazilian president assured that he has no hard feelings and maintained that his objective will be to “demoralize those who governed before with numbers,” by highlighting the achievements of his administration.
The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvareferred to the assassination attempt he suffered in 2022 during the attempted coup d’état, days after assuming the presidency, and expressed that he is grateful to be “alive.”
“I have to be much more grateful now that I am alive. The attempt to poison me and (Vice President Geraldo) Alckmin It didn’t work, we are here“said the president at the Planalto Palace, headquarters of the Executive Branch, during a ceremony to present a review of highway concession contracts and attract private investment in transportation infrastructure.
Despite the attack he suffered, he remarked: “I don’t want to poison anyone, I don’t want to chase anyone. The only thing I want is that When my term ends, let’s demoralize with numbers those who governed before us“, said.
In that sense, he highlighted: “I want to measure with numbers who made more schoolswho attended to the most poor, who did more roads, further bridges, who paid plus minimum wage in this country, that’s what I want to measure because that It is what counts in the results of governance“added the president.
They arrested four soldiers who tried to assassinate Lula da Silva in 2022
Last Tuesday, the Brazilian police arrested four important soldiersone of them a former collaborator of the former president Jair Bolsonarofor orchestrating an alleged plan to kill the then elected president in 2022 Lula da Silva in order to carry out a coup d’état.
These soldiers planned poisoning Lula with a chemical agent months after being elected, as reported by the intelligence directorate of the security force in a document released.
According to a statement from the Federal Police (PF), the detainees planned a coup d’état to prevent the inauguration of the current president and even assassinate him. In turn, a force agent was arrested.
The plan provided for poisoning, use of explosives and heavy weapons to “neutralize” Lula da Silvato Alckmin and the judge of the Supreme Court, Alexandre de Moraes.
The investigation also indicated that a “crisis cabinet” would be created after the murders.
Source: Ambito
