Brazilian VP Mourão says transition process from Bolsonaro to Lula da Silva is guaranteed

The vice president of Brazil, Hamilton Mourão, guaranteed on Tuesday the willingness of the ruling party to carry out the transition process from the government of Jair Bolsonaro to the inauguration, on Jan. 1, of the president-elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Mourão assured the reception at Jaburú Palace, the vice presidency seat, that Vice President-elect Geraldo Alckmin was responsible for the transition from the Bolsonaro government to the Lula da Silva government.

“The transition is underway. We met with Alckmin, and everything is going well. President Bolsonaro is not participating in the transition,” Mourão told journalists after receiving the vice president-elect in the framework of the transfer of the administrative functions of the Executive Branch.

President Bolsonaro has decided not to participate in the transition after being defeated in the October 30 elections by Lula da Silva, leader of the Workers’ Party PT (progressive-globalist), who will assume his third term in office after having governed two terms between 2003 and 2010.

This was the first face-to-face meeting between Alckmin and Mourao, senator-elect, given the change of government.

Mourão said Bolsonaro was “somewhat sad” for failing his re-election bid.

Vice-president-elect Alckmin is leading the transition team in session in Brasilia, at the headquarters of the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, where thematic working groups have been formed to analyze the documentation, structure, and budgets of the federal area.

Within this framework, President-elect Lula da Silva is holding meetings with senators and deputies, and party leaders to form a parliamentary alliance necessary to approve the projects to be sent to Congress by his administration.

In this series of meetings, the Workers’ Party has decided to support the reelection of the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Arthur Lira, of the Progressive Party (PP, center-right), an ally of Bolsonaro in the last two years, while awaiting the approval of a constitutional amendment that will allow for an increase in social spending as of 2023.