Lula takes over in Brazil, slams Bolsonaro’s anti-democratic threats

BRASILIA, 03 January 2023, (TON): Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sworn in as Brazil’s president delivering a searing indictment of former far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro and vowing a drastic change of course to rescue a nation plagued by hunger, poverty, and racism.

In a speech to Congress after officially taking the reins of Latin America’s biggest country, the leftist said democracy was the true winner of the October presidential vote when he ousted Bolsonaro in the most fraught election for a generation.

Bolsonaro left Brazil for the United States after refusing to concede defeat, rattled the cages of Brazil’s young democracy with baseless claims of electoral weaknesses that birthed a violent movement of election deniers.

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