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Just invested, Lula signs decrees on weapons and the Amazon

2023-01-02T19:58:22.181Z


The 77-year-old left-wing president has limited the possibilities of buying weapons and ammunition, reactivated the Fund for the Amazon, and signed an increase in the minimum wage.


Just invested, the new left-wing president of Brazil, Lula, signed decrees to limit the use of weapons and strengthen the protection of the Amazon, taking the opposite view of the government of his far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro.

Within 24 hours of his inauguration ceremony in the Brazilian capital on Sunday, the 77-year-old left-wing icon began to deliver on his key campaign promises.

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Suspension of weapon registrations

Through a decree published Monday in the official journal, Lula suspended for two months new registrations of weapons and ammunition for hunters, collectors and sport shooters (grouped under the acronym CAC).

This category has seen its arsenal triple under Bolsonaro's four years in office, to reach one million registered weapons.

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Lula also limited the possibility of purchasing weapons and ammunition for certain authorized uses and suspended the granting of new licenses for CACs and new registrations for shooting clubs and schools.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva also created a working group to propose new regulations for the Disarmament Statute, in force since 2003 and his first government at the time, which aims to disarm civilians.

"

The decree on arms control seeks to end the irresponsible period of + everything is permitted +, incompatible with the Constitution

", assured on Twitter Flavio Dino, Minister of Justice and Public Security of Lula.

Strengthen the protection of the Amazon

The new head of state also signed a series of decrees aimed at strengthening the protection of the Amazon, whose average annual deforestation has increased by 75% compared to the previous decade.

Lula notably set up a "

permanent inter-ministerial commission for the prevention and control of deforestation

", while deciding to reactivate the Fund for the Amazon, created in 2008 to collect donations intended for investments in the forest with a view to its preservation.

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The Amazon Fund had been frozen since 2019 due to differences over the destination of the funds between Norway and Germany, the main donors, and the Bolsonaro government.

These two countries have expressed their intention to top it up again.

Lula also revoked a decree authorizing mining in indigenous areas and environmentally protected areas.

Bolsa Familia

On Sunday, in the middle of the investiture ceremony, Lula signed a decree aimed at extending the popular “

Bolsa Familia

” program, which grants 600 reais, or around 111 euros per month, to the poorest families.

It is a campaign promise made after a painstaking negotiation with Parliament in December so that the program can escape the cap on public spending.

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Lula also signed an increase in the minimum wage from 1,212 to 1,320 reais (about 245 euros), a decision which had not yet been published in the official journal on Monday.

Some 125 million Brazilians out of the country's 215 million suffer from food insecurity, and 30 million from hunger.

Reconsideration of Bolsonaro's decisions

Lula also stopped the process launched under Bolsonaro to privatize eight public companies, including the oil company Petrobras and the Brazilian post office.

He warned during the campaign that he did not want any privatization of public groups.

The Brazilian president has ordered a review, within thirty days, of the many decisions taken by his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro to impose confidentiality on information and documents of the administration.

Jair Bolsonaro has repeatedly decreed the confidentiality of public documents for a hundred years in order to prohibit access to them, such as those concerning his vaccinations or his visits to the former first lady, Michelle Bolsonaro.

Lula finally ordered the general secretariat of the presidency to work on the creation of a new program called “

Pro-Catador

” which promotes and improves the working conditions of garbage collectors.

Source: lefigaro

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