Temer sworn in as president of Brazil, Rousseff vows resistance
Updated: 2016-09-01 08:31
(Xinhua)
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Brazil's new President Michel Temer attends the presidential inauguration ceremony after Brazil's Senate removed President Dilma Rousseff in Brasilia, Brazil, August 31, 2016. [Photo/Agencies] |
Speaking from the presidential palace, accompanied by allied politicians and union leaders, Rousseff said the Senate "had taken a decision which enters into the history of great injustices."
"They condemned an innocent and validated a parliamentary coup. Politicians seeking to desperately escape from the grasp of Justice appropriated power through a coup d'etat," she emphasized.
Rousseff added this was the second coup she had faced after the military coup of 1964 which she resisted as a young woman.
According to the former leader, the government of President Michel Temer would attack the rights "to work, a fair retirement, housing, land, health, education and culture, the rights of young people, blacks, indigenous, LGBT people, and the right to protest without being repressed."
However, she vowed that the political work begun in the government of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (2002-2010) "is not over. We will not return to satisfy our desires and vanities, we will return to continue our quest for a Brazil where the people rule."
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