Lula’s robust reassertion of democracy, social progress and the rule of law in Brazil

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On 8th January 2023, a week after Lula’s presidential inauguration, the world was shocked by a Trump-style mob attack on key state institutions in Brasilia, the country’s capital city. It was a Bolsonarista insurrection aimed at not recognising Lula’s victory and keeping Jair Bolsonaro in power. Flavio Dino, Lula’s minister of justice, reported that Bolsonaristas had perpetrated similar acts of vandalism in at least ten states. To hand over the presidential sash on Lula would have been tantamount to accepting the people’s electoral will. Under Lula’s progressive government, the significance of Brazilian democracy to rest of Latin America cannot be stressed enough.
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