Union headquarters in Brazil express their support for President Lula da Silva Pueblo en linea

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Union headquarters in Brazil express their support for President Lula da Silva

Brazilian President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva (c) attends a meeting with representatives of the country’s trade unions at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, January 18, 2023. Lula da Silva received representatives of the country’s trade unions at the Planalto Palace on Wednesday, who expressed their support for the government and dismissed the attacks on the authorities recorded on January 8 by opponents in the city of Brasilia. (Source: Xinhua/Lucio Tavora)

BRASILIA, Jan. 18 (Xinhua). The President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, received representatives of the country’s trade unions at the Planalto Palace on Wednesday, who expressed their support for the government and dismissed the attacks on the powers of the status announced on January 8 by the opponents in the city of Brasilia was registered.

Union officials denied the invasion and damage to the Planalto Palace (seat of the executive branch), Congress and the federal court, and called for punishment for those involved in the attacks.

Lula da Silva expressed at the meeting that in recent years, during the tenure of former President Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022), workers “were not consulted by the federal government”, so the dialogue is resuming.

The Minister representing the Council Presidency, Rui Costa, and the Minister of Labor and Employment, Luiz Marinho, were also present at the meeting with trade unionists this Wednesday.

For his part, Central Única de Trabajadores President Sergio Nobre said that the attack by Bolsonaro’s supporters “cannot go unpunished”.

“We have no doubt that this attack was carried out by someone who planned and funded it, and this attack on democracy cannot go unpunished,” he said.

Meanwhile, Fuerza Sindical President Miguel Torres reiterated that the meeting had also become an act of “solidarity” with the government and the institutions, “with the legislative and judicial powers violently clouded by violence.”

For his part, the President of the New Central Union of Workers, Moacyr Roberto Tesch, emphasized that “it is very gratifying that we can enter through the corridor of this huge palace, not like these vandals, nor like these terrorists of the 8th,” he said. .

Union leaders presented Lula da Silva with a series of requests from Brazilian workers regarding their job demands.

Among the requests is the readjustment of the minimum wage of 1,343 reais ($263), higher than the 1,302 reais ($255) proposed by the Ministry of Finance.

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Brazilian President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva (c) attends a meeting with representatives of the country’s trade unions at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, January 18, 2023. Lula da Silva received representatives of the country’s trade unions at the Planalto Palace on Wednesday, who expressed their support for the government and dismissed the attacks on the authorities recorded on January 8 by opponents in the city of Brasilia. (Source: Xinhua/Lucio Tavora)

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Brazilian President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva attends a meeting with representatives of the country’s trade unions at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, January 18, 2023. Lula da Silva received representatives of the country’s trade unions at the Planalto Palace on Wednesday, who expressed their support for the government and dismissed the attacks on the authorities recorded on January 8 by opponents in the city of Brasilia. (Source: Xinhua/Lucio Tavora)

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