Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a decree for the federal government to assume security powers in the federal district of Brasilia, following the assault by «vandals» on the country’s main political and judicial institutions.
From the state of Sao Paulo, where Lula had traveled to supervise the ravages caused by the floods, the president condemned the violence of the last 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 vandals will be found and punished», said the president, before reading out the details of a decree that implies the intervention on the competences that theoretically belong to Brasilia, whose work had been questioned by the ruling party after the chaos experienced in the streets of the capital.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
