🔴 Live. Lula da Silva was sworn in and is already the new president of Brazil

Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva assumed the presidency of Brazil this Sunday, after winning the October ballotage with 50.9 percent of the votes, burying the re-election dream of Jair Bolsonaro, who obtained the support of 49 .1 percent of voters.

The new president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio "Lula" Da Silva, will meet this Monday in Brasilia with Alberto Fernández.

This was reported this Sunday by Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero, who confirmed Lula's official visit to Argentina at the end of January. "Tomorrow there will be a brief meeting between Lula and Alberto Fernández," said Cafiero. According to spokespersons, the meeting will take place at 10 am at the Itamaraty Palace, headquarters of the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, in Brasilia.

Vice President Cristina Kirchner published this Sunday a message for the assumption of Lula Da Silva as president of Brazil.

The new Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da SIlva, assured this Sunday when he assumed that "the process of national destruction" left by his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, has ended.

In this sense, he denounced the emptying of public policies caused during the administration of the far-right Bolsonaro and promised to "rebuild Brazil again"

A man carrying a knife and an explosive device was arrested this Sunday, after trying to enter the inauguration ceremony of Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva as president of Brazil. 

As detailed, "the individual came from Rio de Janeiro to participate in the event and, during the search, a knife and fireworks were found on him."

Lula Da Silva is the new president of Brazil. In his inauguration speech, in Congress, the new president of the neighboring country stated that he will govern "including the workers and the poorest in government decisions."

And he stressed that during this electoral campaign "I saw hope shine in the eyes of a suffering people."

Lula Da Silva took office this Sunday as president of Brazil for the third time. In his speech in Congress, the new president promised to achieve, as he had promised in his previous governments, that "every Brazilian has three meals a day."

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 77, assumed the Presidency of Brazil this Sunday for a new term. He was sworn in at the National Congress, accompanied by a crowd of 300,000 people at the Esplanade of the Ministries, in the capital Brasilia.

“I promise to maintain, defend and comply with the Constitution, observe the laws, promote the general good of the Brazilian people, uphold the union, integrity and independence of Brazil,” he declared with his hand on the Constitution.

The Brazilian President assumed his third term after having governed the country between 2003 and 2010 and after having been illegally imprisoned for 580 days by Operation Lavajato, which is why he was disqualified from participating in the 2018 elections expired by the outgoing president, Jair Bolsonaro, who left the country on Friday to travel to the United States.

Before Lula Da Silva takes office for the third time as Brazil's president, the ceremony began with a minute's silence in remembrance of Brazilian soccer star Pelé and Benedict XVI, the emeritus pope, who died in recent days.

Lula Da Silva arrived this Sunday in a black convertible Rolls Royce to Congress, where in moments the ceremony will begin in which he will be sworn in as president of Brazil for the third time. 

The car in which Lula arrived at Congress traveled two kilometers from the Metropolitan Cathedral, in the midst of an impressive security operation. In his wake, the president-elect was cheered by thousands of followers, who celebrated his coming to power.

In the midst of a massive celebration, Luis Inácio Lula Da Silva heads in a caravan from the Metropolitan Cathedral to Congress, where this Sunday he will take office for the third time as president of Brazil. 

The distance that separates the Cathedral, located at one end of the Ministries Esplanade, from the Congress is two kilometers. The car in which the president travels, a black convertible Rolls Royce, is greeted by thousands of protesters.

Traveling with Lula are his wife, Janja, and Vice Geraldo Alckmin, along with his wife. The entire tour takes place in the midst of an impressive security operation. 

A crowd celebrates the arrival of Lula to power. Image: AFP

The President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, considered this Sunday that with the return of Lula Da Silva to the presidency  "Brazil returns to the international scene".

"We need Brazil, we need a Brazilian political leadership that plays its role, not only in economic cooperation, but also in global climate protection," explained Steinmeier, who met Lula last night shortly after his arrival in Brasilia. Steinmeier also announced that Germany will contribute 35 million euros (38 million dollars) in the short term to the Amazon Fund to protect the tropical forest, money that was frozen during the government of the outgoing president, the far-right Jair Bolsonaro. "We all care about preserving the green lungs of the Earth, the Amazon jungles," he declared.

The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, canceled his trip to Brazil. In this way, he will not attend this Sunday the inauguration ceremony of the president-elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.  This was reported by the Globo chain, from Brazil, which indicated that Maduro suspended his trip on Saturday night.  

Thousands of Brazilians celebrate this Sunday the inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, to his third presidency, and participate in the Festival of the Future, a massive popular festival that will feature the participation of Pabllo Vittar, María Rita, Chico Cesar, among other artists from Brazil.

The festival is open and free and some 300,000 people are expected to attend. It takes place on two stages, the Gal Costa and the Elza Soares, installed one next to the other on the Esplanade of the Ministries.

The party began at 10 a.m. (local time) and will be interrupted at 1 p.m. so that the public can follow Lula's inauguration ceremony, through large screens, which includes the inauguration of the National Congress, the pronouncement and the transmission of the presidential band.

Then it will resume  at 18.30. And although Lula's participation has been confirmed, the time of her greeting to the public will be confirmed once all the ceremonial preparations have been completed.

The former president of Bolivia Evo Morales will attend the inauguration ceremony of Lula Da Silva as president of Brazil this Sunday. The former president published a message on his social networks in which he was "honored" and "happy" to "participate in the possession of brother President Lula."

"Brother Lula brings the hope of inclusion, defense of life and the environment for the Great Homeland. A new time of Latin American integration with dignity, sovereignty and solidarity," he concluded.

President Alberto Fernández traveled to Brazil this morning to participate in the inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to the first magistracy of that neighboring country.

The flight that transferred the President and his entourage to Brasilia departed this morning from the military sector of Aeroparque Jorge Newbery, in the City of Buenos Aires, and arrived in Brasilia at noon.

The President traveled accompanied by the Foreign Minister, Santiago Cafiero; the presidential spokesperson, Gabriela Cerruti; the Secretary for Climate Change, Cecilia Nicolini; and the Argentine ambassador in Brazil, Daniel Scioli.  Lula's inauguration -which will be witnessed by delegations from some 120 countries and 17 heads of state- will begin at 3:00 p.m., with the swearing-in ceremony in the National Congress. Later, Lula and his vice president, Geraldo Alckmin, will go to the Planalto Palace for the change of command and the delivery of the presidential sash. After the swearing in of ministers, Lula will greet the foreign delegations by protocol to later offer the traditional reception of honor to the heads of state present at the inauguration.

The president of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, and the former presidents José "Pepe" Mujica and Julio María Sanguinetti left this Sunday together by plane for the capital of Brazil, where they will attend the inauguration ceremony of the president-elect  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

They left on a private flight that left from the Carrasco International Airport, on the outskirts of the Uruguayan capital, at 10:00 local time.

Luis Inácio Lula Da Silva will take office this Sunday as president of Brazil, for the third time in history. 

While thousands of Brazilians arrive in Brasilia to take part in the president's oath and the festivities, which are expected to be massive, Lula sent a greeting to his followers on his social networks:  "Good day how are you?"

Followers of the outgoing president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, camp in front of the Army headquarters in Brasilia to demand that the Armed Forces intervene, hours after Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva takes office as president for the 39th of his history.

The camp,  Installed in Brasilia after Bolsonaro's electoral defeat at the end of October, it is less than seven kilometers from the Metropolitan Cathedral, from where the caravan led by Lula will leave this Sunday, after 2:30 p.m., on its way to his third presidential inauguration. “It has been proven that there was fraud,” a Bolsonaro follower told the Télam news agency. "They did not let the election be audited"; "It was a robbery"; "We do not want interruption, we want continuity"; “We are not going to accept the globalists of the Sao Paulo Forum”; "We don't want to let communism into Brazil," said other protesters.

Flávio Dino, whom Lula da Silva appointed as his Minister of Security, reported that an operation was deployed that will have "100% of the police forces of the Federal District (DF) on the streets, to guarantee the safety of not only the President, but also of foreign delegations and the public".

On Saturday of last week, a man who had tried to detonate an explosive at the Brasilia airport, in the midst of a tense climate that included violent protests by supporters of the outgoing Jair Bolsonaro.

The man, George Washington de Oliveira Sousa, who was arrested by the security forces, stated that his purpose was to sow chaos to justify a military intervention that prevents Lula's inauguration. Oliveira Sousa also said he was a Bolsonaro supporter.

This Friday, Lula da Silva announced who will be the officials who will take over 37 Ministries. The most symbolic appointment, according to the local media, is that of Sonia Guajajara at the head of the new -and promised in the campaign- Ministry of Indigenous Peoples. Other members of the cabinet are:

President Alberto Fernández travels to Brasilia to participate in Lula's inauguration. The Argentine president, who spent the last night of the year at Quinta de Olivos, leaves for Brazil accompanied by a small entourage made up of the foreign minister, Santiago Cafiero, and the spokeswoman, Gabriela Cerruti.

Durante su breve estadía, el jefe de Estado busca firmar con su flamante par brasileño un "gran acuerdo estratégico". En la elaboración del mismo vienen trabajando hace meses la embajada de la Argentina en Brasil, que conduce Scioli, junto con Cancillería y con la secretaría de Asuntos Estratégicos, que encabeza Mercedes Marcó del Pont. Ese acuerdo estaría basado, fundamentalmente, en la integración financiera y energética.

"Los presidentes de ambos países, coincidiendo que el escenario internacional presenta nuevos desafíos para la región, que tornan necesaria la búsqueda de soluciones innovadoras que contribuyan al fortalecimiento del desarrollo económico, social y democrático de sus pueblos y de la región, acuerdan profundizar la integración bilateral privilegiada en sus múltiples ámbitos", expresa un borrador del documento al que accedió Página|12.

Al menos cuatro activistas de extrema derecha seguidores del presidente Jair Bolsonaro fueron detenidos este jueves en una operación realizada en siete estados de Brasil por orden de la Corte Suprema contra los responsables de quemar vehículos y destrozar comercios en Brasilia el pasado 12 de diciembre, en repudio a la victoria en el ballottage de Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

El comisario de la Policía Federal, Cléo Mazzoti, indicó en conferencia de prensa que existen otras siete personas con pedidos de captura por haber participado en esos actos vandálicos y vinculó la violencia con el acampe de bolsonaristas, que desde hace dos meses piden frente al cuartel del Ejército un golpe de Estado contra la asunción de Lula, vencedor en la segunda vuelta del 30 de octubre.

Para no estar presente en la ceremonia de traspaso de mando, Jair Bolsonaro abandonó este viernes Brasil en el avión presidencial cerca de las dos de la tarde, hora local, para permanecer por al menos un mes en Orlando, Estados Unidos.

"Ya estoy en vuelo, vuelvo a la brevedad", dijo Bolsonaro al canal de noticias CNN Brasil cuando estaba a bordo del avión de la Fuerza Aérea.

Así el vice Hamilton Mourao ocupó la presidencia hasta el sábado a la medianoche, aunque dijo que no tiene previsto participar de las ceremonias de traspaso de mando de este domingo.

El equipo de prensa de Lula informó que en la ceremonia oficial de investidura presidencial habrá al menos 53 delegaciones extranjeras. Y revelaron que ya son 17 los jefes de Estado que confirmaron su presencia:

Según resaltaron, asistirán "casi tres veces más delegaciones extranjeras de alto nivel que las vistas en la última toma de posesión en 2019”, del gobernante saliente Jair Bolsonaro, quien no le entregará la banda presidencial a su sucesor debido a que —según la prensa brasileña— viajará a los Estados Unidos, 

Este domingo se realiza el Festival del Futuro, una fiesta popular que contará con más de 60 artistas en escena para celebrar la toma de posesión de Lula da Silva. 

El festival será libre y gratuito y se espera que asistan unas 300.000 personas. Se realizará en dos escenarios, el Gal Costa y el Elza Soares, instalados uno al lado del otro en la Explanada de los Ministerios.

Iniciará a las 10 y será interrumpido a las 13 para que el público pueda seguir la ceremonia de asunción de Lula, a través de grandes pantallas, que incluye la toma de posesión en el Congreso Nacional, el pronunciamiento y la transmisión de la banda presidencial.

El festival será retomado a las 18.30. Y si bien se confirmó la participación de Lula, la hora de su saludo al público será confirmada una vez concluidos todos los preparativos ceremoniales.

Este domingo, Lula da Silva asume por tercera vez la presidencia del Brasil con una ceremonia en la capital del país. Se espera que el presidente electo llegue al Congreso a las 13:45 (hora argentina), mientras que la sesión formal en la que asumirá como Presidente de todos los brasileños está pautada para las 15:00. 

Luego, el mandatario electo realizará la lectura y firma del Período de Mandato del Presidente y Vicepresidente de la República.

El futuro ministro de Seguridad, Flavio Dino confirmó que "habrá una movilización del 100% de las fuerzas policiales del Distrito Federal (DF), para garantizar la seguridad no solo del Presidente, sino también de las delegaciones extranjeras y del público", con el fin de prevenir cualquier intento de atentado o episodio de violencia.

Dino did not specify if Lula will wear a bulletproof vest or if he will parade from the Cathedral to Congress - a 2-kilometer journey - and from there to the Esplanade of the Ministries in the classic Rolls Royce of the Presidency or in an armored vehicle.

It is expected that more than 300,000 people will be present in the streets of Brasilia - the hotel capacity has been full for six weeks - and the participation of 17 heads of State and Government, including President Alberto Fernández, and another 65 foreign delegations.

Flávio Dino, whom Lula da Silva appointed as his Minister of Security, reported that an operation was deployed that will have "100% of the police forces of the Federal District (DF) on the streets, to guarantee the safety of not only the President, but also of foreign delegations and the public".