congratulations from the world
Many world leaders issued congratulatory messages instantly after the outcomes have been introduced. Whereas US President Joe Biden acknowledged that “the elections have been honest”, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron, Mexican chief Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Argentine President Alberto Fernández issued congratulatory messages. The worry of Bolsonaro opposing the election outcomes and throwing the nation into chaos is regarded as behind the speedy response of world leaders. Beneath the far-right Bolsonaro, a former soldier, Brazil’s democratic establishments have been seen to be weakened. Because of this, many in Brazil have been calling Sunday’s vote a “future selection” or “a very powerful election in Brazilian historical past”. It was additionally claimed that Bolsonaro wouldn’t settle for the election outcomes if he misplaced, and the far-right chief has not but made a press release admitting defeat. Certainly, earlier than the election, Bolsonaro had acknowledged that he would object if there was an “irregular” consequence.
From poverty to president
Lula grew up in deep poverty within the arid northeastern state of Pernambuco, the seventh of eight youngsters born to an illiterate farming household. On the age of seven, his household joined the wave of immigration to São Paulo, the guts of the trade. Lula labored as a shoe shiner and peanut salesman earlier than changing into a metalworker on the age of 14. He misplaced his finger in a piece accident within the Nineteen Sixties. He rose shortly to go his union and led main strikes within the Nineteen Seventies that challenged the then army dictatorship. In 1980, he based the Labor Celebration 9 years later. Lula misplaced three elections from 1989 to 1998, ultimately succeeding in back-to-back elections in 2002 and 4 years later. This final election was his sixth marketing campaign. The daddy of 5 youngsters, who misplaced each of his wives, Lula himself additionally recovered from throat most cancers. He most not too long ago misplaced his spouse of forty years, Marisa Leticia Rocco, who suffered a stroke in 2017. Lula lives with sociologist and activist Rosangela “Janja” da Silva, whom he married in Could.
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