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Lula’s Cabinet Picks, Bolsonaro To Skip Inauguration

BRAZIL
  • President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is expected to announce the rest of his cabinet, including Planning and Environment ministers. It has widely been speculated that Senator Simone Tebet, a former presidential candidate who backed Lula in the October runoff vote, agreed to helm Brazil’s planning ministry, according to the president of her party earlier this week.
  • 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.

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