MADRID, 8 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has signed a decree for the federal government to assume security powers in the federal district of Brasilia, after the assault by “vandals” against the country’s main political and judicial institutions.
From the state of Sao Paulo, where Lula had traveled to monitor the ravages caused by the floods, the president has condemned the violence in recent hours, which is “unprecedented.” “It has never been done in the history of this country”, he lamented during a speech in which he recalled his own electoral defeats.
“All the vandals will be found and punished,” said the president, before reading out loud the details of a decree that involves intervention on the powers that theoretically correspond to Brasilia, whose work had been questioned by the ruling party after the chaos experienced in the streets of the capital.
