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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro left Brazil on Friday, December 30, for Orlando, in the United States, two days before the end of his term and the inauguration of his successor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in Brasilia. The ultra-rightist had already indicated on several occasions that he might not be present at the transfer of powers.
Bolsonaro will not be present on Sunday, January 1, at the inauguration ceremony of the new left-wing president, his rival Lula da Silva, to whom the presidential sash was to pass according to protocol. By shirking this duty, Jair Bolsonaro certainly marks his refusal to concede defeat, but he is also trying to undermine or at least undermine the new president. According to the FlightAware flight tracking website, the military plane carrying the outgoing president landed in Orlando, Florida on Friday night, December 30.
Vice President Hamilton Mourão, who is acting as interim President, will deliver a speech on Saturday night, December 31, according to the national radio RNR.
Very silent since his defeat in the presidential elections, Jair Bolsonaro tearfully addressed his followers on social networks before his departure. “We have a great future ahead of us… we have lost battles, but not the war,” he said. He also condemned a frustrated attack before Christmas. The author, one of his supporters, had initially admitted that he was inspired by the far-right president, before withdrawing references to him.
A member of a pro-Bolsonaro faction, he had installed an explosive device in a tanker truck near the Brasilia airport. The objective was to “sow chaos” and achieve a military intervention.
Jair Bolsonaro expressed emotion in his speech through a live on social networks:
There is no justification here in Brasilia for this attempted terrorist attack outside the airport, there is no justification for it. We cannot think that January 1 is the end of the world. It’s not all or nothing, no! It is not a matter of all or nothing. We have to be smart, we have to show that we are different from the people on the other side. We respect the laws and the Constitution, God, the country and the family. They are things that exist forever. Brazil is not going to sink. Believe in yourself. We may lose battles, but we are not going to lose the war.
Departure for Mar-a-Lago, to Donald Trump’s house?
Jair Bolsonaro, who did not announce his imminent departure during his speech, then boarded an Air Force plane at around 2:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. GMT), reported the media O Globo, Brasil, Estadão, and the UOL news site. .
“I’m flying, I’ll be back soon,” the far-right leader told Brazil. His security services were already in Florida, in the United States. A destination confirmed by the American newspaper Washington Post.
According to the Brazilian media, he would stay in Mar-a-Lago, on the estate of former US President Donald Trump, to whom he is very close.
High tension of those who do not accept the defeat of Bolsonaro
For more than sixty days, voters disappointed in Jair Bolsonaro have continued to contest his defeat in the presidential elections against the leftist Luis Inácio Lula da Silva. They are tirelessly camping outside army headquarters in Brazil’s major cities to demand military intervention to prevent the Workers’ Party (PT) candidate from taking power.
On the eve of the inauguration in Brasilia, a very tense atmosphere reigns among the Bolsonaristas, reports the special envoy in Brasilia of RFI, Sarah Cozzolino:
“On Thursday, December 29, the police and the military tried to dismantle part of the camp, without success. They were greeted with stones and had to abandon the operation. Immediately, no one agrees to speak to the press, but the speeches are clear:
“Giving up is not an option,” says a blonde woman in her forties on a small stage, draped in a Brazilian flag. We are going to liberate this country”, she shouts to the hundreds of people who listen to her. “We are going to die for Brazil”, the public responds.
Like the author of the attempted attack in Brasilia, also a member of a camp, some activists say they are willing to fight “until the end” because they still refuse to believe that Lula’s inauguration will take place.
But very quickly, the RFI bug is blown and the team is thrown out by the military. The activists ask if they are journalists, people of the left, French, sent by the French president Emmanuel Macron. In less than two minutes, the crowd describes the RFI journalists as agents of the French government infiltrating their ranks to sink the movement. The atmosphere became tense and the activists violently expelled them.”
