President Louise Insio Lula da Silva (PT) this Thursday (24) to Rome, Italy, in order to participate in the funeral Pope FranciscoWho died last Monday (21).
Representatives of the three authorities will accompany Petista: President of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), Luis Roberto BarrosoHeads of the House of Representatives and the Senate, Hugo Motta (Republicans-b) and Give her alathrumb (Union-AP).
The entourage of footnote at 10 pm on Thursday and arrives on Friday (25) to Europe. the A funeral is scheduled Next Saturday (26). First Lady Ganga da Silva will accompany the president on the trip.
The footnote is expected to return to Brazilia on Saturday, after the funeral.
As showed CNNThis will be the second presence of Petista at the funeral of the severity. In 2005 he was farewell to John Paul II. The next Pope will be the fourth you saw Lula while holding the position of president.
The death of Pope Francis
Francisco died On Monday, as a result of a stroke and irreversible heart failure. He was transferred to the hospital for approximately 40 days at the Gimily Hospital due to pneumonia in both the lungs.
He was unloaded on March 23 and gave few public appearances since then. The last one was on Easter on Sunday, a day before his death, when he went to St. Peter Square to give the blessing “et orbi” (to the city and the world) and asked to stop fire in the Gaza Strip.
In the second, it was announced without the official mourning for seven days in the country and publicly regretted the death of the Pope.
“Francisco was a door for everyone, but mainly of the poorest, the poorest, the dark, the immigrants, no voice, the victims of hunger and abandonment,” the president said in a video posted on social networks.
Since the Pope took office, he met without him three times personally.