In a last statement, Brazil’s VP Mourão highlights the government’s achievements and calls for a return to normalcy

Vice President Hamilton Mourão made, at 8 p.m. this Saturday (Dec. 31), as acting president, the last pronouncement of the Bolsonaro government before its closure and inauguration of the new government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

“We work, and we will deliver a balanced country to the next government,” said the vice president.

He also highlighted the possibility of Brazil’s inclusion in the OECD, which requires principles of democracy and the free market. There is resistance from the new government to Brazilian membership in the organization.

Mourão said there were “mishaps” in the government but celebrated economic advances and in Amazon conservation.

He urged his constituents to defend the liberal economy, which would have been the target of attacks “from the three powers”.

Indirectly, he complained about the excesses of authorities acting outside their legal powers, a possible reference to Alexandre de Moraes.

He spoke of an “institutional imbalance in progress” with a climate of chaos and social breakdown.

“The alternation of power in a democracy is healthy and must be preserved,” added Mourão, who also called for promoting equal opportunities in the country.

“We will change the government, but not the regime. We will maintain our democratic character,” said the acting president.

He called for citizens to return to normalcy and for elected representatives to make “tough opposition to the progressive project” of the third Lula da Silva administration.

Mourão said goodbye, hoping that Brazil would fulfill its “manifest destiny” of being the most prosperous and developed liberal democracy south of the equator.

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