By a very small margin Lula da Silva was elected president of Brazil yesterday Sunday (30/10), beating Jáich Bolsonaro, the outgoing far-right head of state, results showed with nearly 99% of the vote counted.
Lula pledged to restore the social “peace” and “unity” that his country “needs”, stressing that Brasilia is “returning” to the international scene, it will no longer be an “outcast”.
“Brazil and the planet need the Amazon alive,” the center-left leader stressed in his victory speech, as the outgoing head of state Bolsonaro was heavily criticized by the international community because during his days the deforestation of the world’s largest rainforest broke the one record after another.
Vowing that his main priority would be to fight “hunger” in Latin America’s largest country of 212 million people, Lula said he would seek fairer trade and not agreements that “doom our country to be a perpetual exporter of raw materials ».
“Together, we will unite them our forces to face the many challenges and we will renew the bond of friendshipbetween our two countries“, the French head of state emphasized through Twitter a few minutes after the election commission announced the result, also posting the message on Portuguese.
Source: News Beast
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