The transition began in Brazil: Alckmin met with Bolsonaro and his team

The vice president-elect of Brazil, Geraldo Alckmin, met today with President Jair Bolsonaro, who told him that he will collaborate with the transition of the future government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Alckmin called the meeting “positive.” The president invited me to go to his cabinet and reiterated the government’s willingness to pass on all the information so that there is a transition guided by the public interest,” said the vice president-elect and leader of Lula’s transition team about the meeting. In a complex context, where there are still some blockades of Bolsonarist supporters who ask not to recognize the result of the runoff on Sunday, October 30, Alckmin avoided answering whether Bolsonaro congratulated him on the victory. Earlier, the vice president-elect had led the first transition meeting with cabinet chief Ciro Nogueira.
“The conversation was quite profitable, very objective, and the transition has already begun,” he told a news conference.

The objective of the transition, which is mandatory and regulated by law in Brazil, is to exchange information to “give continuity to the services provided to the population,” starting in January, explained the vice president-elect. By law, the president-elect has the right to form a transition team of 50 people who will have access to public administration data and prepare the first measures of the new government. Alckmin has not yet announced the names that will make up that team, but said that they will leave the coalition that backed Lula for the elections: “As of Monday, after the meeting with President Lula, we will begin to disclose the names of the transition,” he said. The vice president-elect was at the Planalto Palace along with the president of the Workers’ Party (PT), Gleisi Hoffmann, and the coordinator of Lula’s government program, former minister and economist Aloizio Mercadante. The transition will have a working headquarters that will be the Banco do Brasil Cultural Center, in Brasilia, between November and December. Lula began yesterday a vacation with his wife Janja in Trancoso, Bahia, a state governed by the PT and one of the electoral pillars of his triumph along with the rest of the northeast, the city of São Paulo and the state of Minas Gerais, with an eye on the formation of his cabinet and the balance of power from his broad left front to the liberal center-right.

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