🏛 Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took office Sunday for a third term as Brazil’s president, in a ceremony snubbed by outgoing leader Jair Bolsonaro.
Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gestures at supporters on his way to the National Congress for his inauguration ceremony, in Brasilia, on January 1, 2023. Photo by CARL DE SOUZA/AFP
It capped a remarkable political comeback for Lula, who returns to the presidential palace less than five years after being jailed on controversial, since-quashed corruption charges. Bolsonaro himself left Brazil for the US state of Florida Friday – reportedly to avoid having to hand the presidential sash to his bitter enemy, as tradition dictates.
“I’m excited beyond measure,” retired teacher Zenia Maria Soares Pinto, 71, told AFP after traveling 30 hours by bus from the southern state of Santa Catarina. They included the presidents of a raft of Latin American countries, Germany, Portugal and the king of Spain. Organisers of the ceremony – led by first lady-to-be Rosangela “Janja” da Silva – have kept secret who will give Lula the sash in Bolsonaro’s absence.
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