Thursday, January 12, 2023 | 8:30 p.m.
The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, considered his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, “unbalanced” on Thursday, but made it clear that there will be no systematic persecution against him. For Lula, Bolsonaro suffers from a “mental imbalance”.
“He is a genocide who after losing the elections locked himself in his house” and stopped governing, warned the president, who assumed the head of state on the 1st of this month after defeating the then PL candidate.
On the other hand, Lula stressed that “this is the first time in the history of Brazil that an elected president begins to govern before” taking office, referring to a series of negotiations that he faced with parliament in December to modify the 2023 budget. .
Despite his attacks on Bolsonaro, Lula assured that his government will not carry out a systematic persecution “against anyone.”
“I am not going to do that during my mandate; my mandate is different; I am not going to be fighting with Bolsonaro, because my mandate is to fight against hunger, I do not want to give the idea that there is persecution,” the president concluded, according to ANSA news agency.
