BRASILIA, Dec 31 — Brazil’s outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro, who has not acknowledged his electoral defeat, left the country Friday, two days before his successor’s...
BRASILIA, Dec 31 — Brazil’s outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro, who has not acknowledged his electoral defeat, left the country Friday, two days before his successor’s inauguration and shortly after bidding his followers a tearful farewell.
This means he will miss Sunday’s swearing-in ceremony and will not transfer the presidential sash to leftist president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, as is the tradition.His vice president, Hamilton Mourao, is now acting president and will give a national address on Saturday, according to the RNR public broadcaster.Earlier Friday, Bolsonaro assured supporters in a live broadcast on social media that “we will not see the world end on January 1” when Lula takes up the presidential mantle.
It was Bolsonaro’s first live address since his narrow October defeat, after which the active social media user fell uncharacteristically silent.Lula had won the election with 50.9 per cent of the vote to Bolsonaro’s 49.1 percent. That year, the last president of the military dictatorship, General Joao Batista Figueiredo, snubbed the inauguration of Jose Sarney, according to reports from the time by the O Globo newspaper.
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