The president tearfully bid farewell while Lula supporters cheered the end of an era of environmental disaster
Jair Bolsonaro’s ultra-conservative era of environmental destruction and international isolation is over after Brazil’s far-right president flew out of the country’s capital, Brasília, ahead of the inauguration of his leftist successor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Minutes after Bolsonaro’s 50-minute farewell transmission, it was reported that he would fly to Orlando, Florida, and planned to spend at least a month in the United States with his family. As Bolsonaro abandoned Brasília on an air force plane at just after 2pm local time, hundreds of thousands of Lula supporters were arriving in the same city for Sunday’s “festival of the future” at which some of Brazil’s biggest pop stars and sambistas will perform.
“I am a person who believes in democracy, an inclusive state and citizenship – and Lula represents precisely this,” said the 58-year-old public health researcher. Octavio Guedes, a political commentator for the TV network GloboNews, said he was certain Brazil’s resurgent right would continue to flourish post-Bolsonaro. “What I’m not sure of is who the leader of this right is going to be.”
Leaders from Africa, Europe and across Latin America are expected in Brasília to witness the start of what is Lula’s third presidential term in a legendary four-decade political career.
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