MOMENT: Lula's addresses Brazilians in tears after receiving sash

Record ID: 1704740

  • Title: MOMENT: Lula's addresses Brazilians in tears after receiving sash
  • Date: 1st January 2023
  • Summary: BRASILIA, BRAZIL (JANUARY 1, 2023) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) BRAZIL’S PRESIDENT, LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA, WEARING PRESIDENTIAL SASH, BREAKING INTO TEARS DURING SPEECH AND SAYING: "Unemployed workers at traffic lights holding signs with a sentence that embarrasses us: 'Please help me'.'"
  • Embargoed: 15th January 2023 21:13
  • Keywords: Brazil Luis Inacio Lula da Silva Lula Sash Speech Tears
  • Location: BRASILIA, BRAZIL
  • City: BRASILIA, BRAZIL
  • Country: Brazil
  • Topics: South America / Central America,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA001985301012023RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Brazil’s new President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, broke into tears during his speech before the nation on Sunday (January 1) after receiving the presidential sash.
    Lula was asking Brazilians to help him during his third term when he burst into tears next to the First Lady, Rosangela da Silva, the vice-president, Geraldo Alckmin, and his wife, Maria Luci Guimaraes Ribeiro, outside Brasilia’s Planalto palace.
    After the swearing-in, Lula drove in an open-top Rolls-Royce to the Planalto palace, where he walked up its ramp with his wife and a diverse group that included Chief Raoni Metuktire of the Kayapó tribe, a young Black boy and a disabled man.
    Lula was then handed the presidential sash - a hugely symbolic act in Brazil that Bolsonaro had repeatedly said he would never do - by Aline Sousa, a Black garbage collector
    Tens of thousands who had gathered to celebrate on Brasilia's esplanade cheered as Lula wiped away tears.
    Lula da Silva was sworn in as Brazil's president on Sunday at the National Congress, delivering a searing indictment of far-right former leader Jair Bolsonaro and vowing a drastic change of course to rescue a nation plagued with hunger, poverty, and racism.
    Lula's inauguration took place amid heightened security.
    Some of Bolsonaro's supporters have protested that the election was stolen and called for a military coup to stop Lula from returning to office in a climate of vandalism and violence.
    (Production: Leandra Camera, Leonardo Benassatto, Anna Portella)
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