Dilma Roussef, The first female president of Brazil
Author: Qwerty
Dilma Rousseff today made history by become the first female president of Brazil, replacing the popular Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and the promise of continuing his legacy, especially in the fight against poverty that eats a million people in the country.
Rousseff, an economist with 63 years affiliated with the Workers’ Party (PT), which grew in the shadow of Lula, his political godfather, was inaugurated as president for the period 2011-2014, a post he occupied until now had only 39 men in a ceremony held in the full House of Representatives.
At the same ceremony also took his vice president, Michel Temer, the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), a force that has been part of all governments since the return of democracy in 1985 but first comes second put in an administration.
The endowment lost some brightness by a torrential downpour that fell on Brasilia just as the president addressed the Congress.
In his first speech, Rousseff said it will emphasize the continuity of Lula’s work, especially on social programs that allowed him to leave office with a record 87% popularity.
“The most stubborn fight my government is to eradicate extreme poverty and creating opportunities for all,” Rousseff said, reiterating a promise made in the last election campaign.
The president, that Lula held the ministries of Mines and Energy and the Presidency, the Government pointed out that his mentor was a great “social mobility” but noted that poverty remains “ashamed” to the country and “prevents him from assert itself as a people fully developed. ”
Lula’s social programs have allowed poverty rates go down between 2002 and 2008 from 35 to 24.1%, and that poverty fell in the same period from 13.7 to 6.6%, according to official data.
“I will not rest as long as Brazilians without food on the table, while there are families in the damp streets, while poor children are abandoned to their fate,” said the president, whose speech was interrupted several times by applause from the Congress.
His plans are still Primer Lula, who made social programs as the “Bolsa Familia”, the “My home, my life” and “Light for All, the flags of their eight-year rule.
“I come to consolidate the transforming work of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who had the most vigorous political experience of my life and the privilege of serving the country,” he added.
Rousseff was full of praise for Lula, who he said was “a president who moved the form of government and led to the Brazilian people to rely even more on himself and the country’s future.”
He noted that to overcome poverty is necessary to maintain a good pace of economic growth as 7.5%, according to all projections, the country achieved in the year just ended.
Promised continuity also includes its commitment to keep their guard up against inflation, which in the first eleven months of 2010 was 5.25%.
“We will not allow, under any circumstances, that this plague (inflation) returns to erode our economic fabric and to punish the poorest families,” he said.
Touching the subject of foreign policy, Rousseff said his government will seek to strengthen ties with the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, especially those of Mercosur and the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and to deepen relations United States and the European Union (EU).
“We can transform our region into an essential component of the multipolar world that is advertised, giving an increasing consistency and Unasur Mercosur,” he said.
How could it be otherwise, held a woman to become principal for the first time since the country and stressed their commitment “supreme” of “honor women, protecting the most fragile and govern for all.”
Participated in the investiture of the Prince of Asturias, Felipe de Borbón, and the presidents of Colombia, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela, Surinam, Guinea, Guinea Bissau and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and the prime ministers of Portugal, South Korea and Bulgaria, a country he came from the father of Rousseff.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was not in most actions, but came for the formal greeting foreign dignitaries to the first president of Brazil.
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