Brazil’s Bolsonaro Poised to Skip Lula’s Inauguration, Visit US Instead
- Brazil president likely to shun power handover ceremony
- Decision, if confirmed, caps a politically tumultuous year
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Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro seems poised to skip the inauguration of his successor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Jan. 1, shunning a traditional power handover ceremony in Brasilia to spend New Year’s Eve celebrations in the US.
While Bolsonaro has kept mum in public about his plans, Brazil’s official gazette on Wednesday published an authorization for an army official to travel to the US in the final days of the year as part of “a security detail for the president and his family during a trip to Miami.”