SAO PAULO – The office environment of Brazil’s vice president claims he has become performing president, an sign that President Jair Bolsonaro has remaining the nation. An official document suggests Bolsonaro may well be headed to Florida.
Bolsonaro’s political nemesis, leftist President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is to be inaugurated Sunday. The press business office of Bolsonaro’s Vice-President, Gen. Hamilton Mourão, confirmed he was performing as president. That would come about when Bolsonaro was traveling, indicating that he would skip the inauguration in a break with Brazilian tradition.
Brazil’s official gazette states various officers were provided authorization to accompany “the future ex-president” to Miami concerning Jan. 1 and Jan. 30, to offer you “advice, protection and individual guidance.”
According to flight tracking websites, the Armed Forces’ official plane still left the cash, Brasilia, all over 2 p.m. area time for Orlando, Fla.
AP author Diane Jeantet contributed to this report from Rio de Janeiro, AP photographer Eraldo Peres from Brasilia.
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