New president to be sworn in on Sunday, hoping to unite country bitterly divided by Jair Bolsonaro’s ‘four years of terror’
Tens of thousands of Brazilians have flooded the streets of the country’s capital, Brasília, to celebrate the start of a new political era with the swearing in of the president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
The veteran leftist, a former factory worker who was president from 2003 to 2010, will take power on Sunday afternoon during celebrations attended by world leaders and followers from the four corners of South America’s largest nation.