Major damage, leaks and missing art. The official residence of the president of Brazil was left in disrepair after four years of government of the far-right Jair Bolsonaro, affirmed the wife of the new occupant, the leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
The new first lady, Rosangela “Janja” da Silva, received a team from TV Globo, the country’s most watched television station, at the Alvorada Palace, the presidential residence in Brasilia, to highlight what she considers to be the terrible condition of the building.
Important spaces of the modernist icon were “deteriorated”said Da Silva, who married Lula in May.
before the cameras It showed smashed windows, torn carpets, cracked hardwood floors, a leaky ceiling, a banquet hall devoid of furniture, and other headaches for any new occupant.
He said an unknown amount of furniture and art are missing, damageds by the sun or were abandoned on the ground, as in the case of a religious piece from the 19th century.
While electronic equipment was scattered in the library where Bolsonaro He used to give his usual live broadcasts on social networks to his followers.
The 56-year-old first lady said the presidential couple will carry out renovation work and repair the damage, and will take an inventory of the residence’s furnishings and art before you move in.
“This building is on the national register” of historic places, he told TV Globowhile giving a tour of the palace in an interview published on Thursday.
“We are thinking of making a record of the things that are inside the Alvorada also, so that this does not happen again, that a ruler comes and removes the objects that are patrimony of the Brazilian State”.
Lula, 77, knows the mansion well, Well, he lived there during his first two presidencies (2003-2010) with his then wife Marisa Leticia, now deceased.
Seeing his current condition, he was “devastated,” Janja confessed.
The white building designed by the renowned Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer was later occupied by his successor and ally, Dilma Roussef, until 2016, when she was deposed by Congress.
Lula, who overcame imprisonment on corruption charges to return to the presidency on January 1returns to the residence after being inhabited by former center-right president Michel Temer and Bolsonaro.
Bolsonaro, who left Brazil and went to Florida, in the United States, two days before the end of his termcould not be contacted.
