Lula Assumes his Third Term as President of Brazil.

Lula Assumes his Third Term as President of Brazil.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took over the Brazilian presidency on Sunday in the presence of at least 53 high-level foreign delegations, including 17 heads of state and government, and in a grand ceremony attended by around 300,000 people.

In his speech to the National Congress, President-elect Lula launched a message of “hope and recovery”; to his compatriots: “The great edifice of rights, sovereignty and development that this nation has erected has been systematically demolished in recent years. We will focus all our efforts on rebuilding this building,” he noted. He also speaks of there construction of Brazil “for every one” and he criticized the use of the public apparatus in elections, referring to the defeated candidate Jair Bolsonaro.

“We owe our presence here to the political awareness of Brazilian public opinion and the democratic front that we have formed. Democracy was the big winner, surpassing the largest mobilization of public and private resources to date; the most brutal threats against freedom of choice,” Lula said.

We owe the fact that we are here to the political awareness of Brazilian society and to the democratic front that we have created. Democracy was the big winner, surpassing the largest mobilization of public and private resources to date; the most brutal threats against freedom of choice,” Lula said.