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Within days of taking office as Brazil’s president, Lula da Silva announced 16 new ministers while Parliament approved the budget for his first year in office. Lula will assume the Presidency on January 1 and will increase the number of ministries to 37, compared to the 23 that the government of the far-right Jair Bolsonaro had. Lula also declared that he receives a country in a state of hardship.
With the appointment of important defenders of human rights in his cabinet, the future president of Brazil has conveyed an important message of what he wants for his government: “Lula 3” will be the most diverse government, not only of political formations, in that way great alliance that supported him in the elections, but also representativeness of society.
To find out the details about the announcement of the 16 names, out of a total of 37 ministries that the new Brazilian government will have, RFI spoke with Joao Alberto Alves, professor of International Relations at the University of Sao Paulo.
For the Brazilian academic, the appointment of Anielle Franco as Minister of Racial Equality has a strong meaning because it will take into account “various sectors traditionally excluded from politics, from the great politics of the country”and, symbolically, it is the continuation of the fight of Marielle Franco, sister of the future minister, an important defender of human rights, shot dead in March 2018.
“I would like to highlight that of all the 16 names announced, the one who filled me with hope the most was the appointment of Professor Silvio Almeira, who assumes the Ministry of Human Rights. He is one of the main voices in defense of human rights, of the fight against structural racism, of institutional racism, of the fight against inequalities. He seems to me a symbol, a framework, at least of what the incoming Lula government is trying to do for the country ”, stressed.
By presenting some of the members of the new government, Lula painted a very gloomy picture of the Brazil that he inherits in areas such as education, culture or the environment. However, Alberto Alves explained that in addition to such challenges, Lula will also have to take care of “a divided country, with a politically divided population and a population in extreme misery, with hunger, with chronic famine”: in Brazil 33 million people find themselves in this extremely precarious situation.
“[Lula] they will also have to rebuild everything that was destroyed during the last 4 years. For this reason, I am very concerned that Congress is made up of a conservative majority, with a broad participation of parties that were the base of the Bolsonaro government, especially in the General Senate.”.
Lula da Silva will assume the presidency on January 1.
