09-01-2023, 07:18 AM
UPDATED JAN 7, 2023, 9:34 PM SG
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First Lady Rosangela “Janja” da Silva gave Brazil’s biggest broadcaster, TV Globo, a tour of the Alvorada Palace, the presidential residence in Brasilia, to highlight what she described as its shoddy condition at the end of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro’s four-year tenancy.
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She showed the camera crew torn rugs, damaged floors, a broken window, a ceiling stained by water leaks, a massive banquet hall left bare of furniture and other issues that would leave normal outgoing tenants nervous over getting their deposits back.
An unknown amount of furniture and artwork from the official residence was missing, damaged or – in the case of one 19th-century work – left on the floor, she said
Electronic equipment was meanwhile left strewn around the library where Mr Bolsonaro used to give his weekly social media live addresses to his far-right base.
Mrs da Silva, 56, said the first couple would carry out renovations to repair the damage and a full inventory of the residence’s furniture and art before moving in.
Photos and full report at: https://www.straitstimes.com/world/brazi...ace-a-mess
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First Lady Rosangela “Janja” da Silva gave Brazil’s biggest broadcaster, TV Globo, a tour of the Alvorada Palace, the presidential residence in Brasilia, to highlight what she described as its shoddy condition at the end of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro’s four-year tenancy.
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She showed the camera crew torn rugs, damaged floors, a broken window, a ceiling stained by water leaks, a massive banquet hall left bare of furniture and other issues that would leave normal outgoing tenants nervous over getting their deposits back.
An unknown amount of furniture and artwork from the official residence was missing, damaged or – in the case of one 19th-century work – left on the floor, she said
Electronic equipment was meanwhile left strewn around the library where Mr Bolsonaro used to give his weekly social media live addresses to his far-right base.
Mrs da Silva, 56, said the first couple would carry out renovations to repair the damage and a full inventory of the residence’s furniture and art before moving in.
Photos and full report at: https://www.straitstimes.com/world/brazi...ace-a-mess
