The
former presidents attended the inauguration of a popular water
diversion project
Former
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and ousted President Dilma
Rousseff attended the San Francisco River Transposition, organized
Sunday by leaders of social movements, artists and intellectuals in
the Brazilian city of Monteiro.
“The
coup is not over yet. It is underway with systematic lies like the
one lived here in Monteiro, where someone, who never raised a finger
to the diversion of these waters, dares to take credit for it now,”
Rousseff said, referring to the administration of Michel Temer.
The
rerouting of the river São Francisco to supply water to the
population of Monteiro in the state of Paraíba, as well as other
cities in the area, is an accomplishment of the previous governments
of Lula and Rousseff.
“I am
very proud to see the water come here, I fought a lot for this
together with Lula,” the former president said.
A large
gathering received the leaders of the Workers Party, or PT, in an
event organized by social movements, who had prevented Temer from
inaugurating the beginning of work on the water delivery days
earlier.
“They
always knew that the democracy of our government benefited the
Brazilian people, they know (the right-wing) that during four
elections we won and they lost, because they never got to present
projects for the development of the country,” Rousseff added.
During his
speech, Lula thanked those present.
“Leaving
where I left and getting where I am, was only with the hand of God
and the Brazilian people,” he said. “I’m not a
professional, I’m not a lawyer, I did not go to college, but … I
know what it’s like to have a big belly full of bad things from
drinking dirty water, I have honor, and I am proud to be able to
contribute to the fact that this town has water today.”
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