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WORLD NEWS Friday 1 april 2022
Brazil officials resign to seek new posts, boost Bolsonaro

Associated Press resemble campaign rallies.
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — On Saturday, da Silva par-
Members of President Jair ticipated in an event com-
Bolsonaro's Cabinet have memorating the 100th an-
left the administration en niversary of the Communist
masse to help boost the Party of Brazil. He told the
Brazilian leader's reelection crowd he believed the
chances by supporting him electorate will remove Bol-
as they campaign for con- sonaro from office in 2022.
gressional seats and gover- For his part, Bolsonaro has
norships. made more than 20 trips
Ten ministers left their posi- around the country while
tions Thursday, along with launching programs and
three other top officials, ac- public works in the first
cording to the official ga- three months of the year,
zette. They are expected to according to his official
campaign for office ahead agenda.
of October's general elec- On Sunday, the president
tions and stump for Bolso- addressed thousands of
naro. Top officials must re- supporters in the capital,
sign in order to run for other Brasilia, which many ob-
positions, per electoral law. servers characterized as
"I'm in my third straight ad- Outgoing, top, and incoming, bottom, government officials pray with their right hand raised for the the unofficial launch of his
protection of Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, center, who stands with his wife Michelle Bolsonaro,
ministration, and I never during a ceremony at Planalto presidential palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, March 31, 2022. campaign. The event intro-
saw a team of ministers so Associated Press duced the slogan "Bolson-
connected to the presi- aro, the people's captain,"
dent, so loyal, so devoted," ácio Lula da Silva, political a political science profes- the October vote. Pollster and a video displayed
outgoing Infrastructure analysts said. Even though sor at Insper University in Datafolha shows da Silva archive images from the
Minister Tarcísio de Freitas the regional and presiden- Sao Paulo. leading by about 20 per- president's life for cheering
said at an event organized tial campaigns don't of- "Campaigning in a coun- centage points. While that supporters dressed in the
for the officials on Thursday. ficially begin until August, try this size is difficult; you is a smaller margin than in green and yellow colors
Outgoing Defense Minister both politicians have al- need people to help with prior months, Bolsonaro will of the Brazilian flag. Some
Walter Braga Netto was ready begun holding large that," said Melo, noting that need all the help he can hopped on stage to take
made a special advisor to events. Latin American's largest na- get to close the gap given selfies with the president.
the president. He is seen Most outgoing officials tion has 27 states and more more than 12 million peo- Speaking at Thursday's
as a top contender to be- have joined the same cen- than 5,000 municipalities. ple are unemployed, infla- event, Bolsonaro, a former
come Bolsonaro's running trist Liberal Party that Bolso- "Their effort backs the presi- tion is running above 10% army captain, started by
mate. naro joined in November. dent's own reelection ef- and fuel prices are surging. celebrating the legacy of
The shake-up is an impor- In the coming months, they fort." Until campaigns officially the two-decade military
tant step toward the hotly will promote their achieve- Polls have consistently begin in August, Brazil's dictatorship on the anniver-
anticipated election ex- ments as well as those of shown far-right Bolsonaro electoral laws forbid poten- sary of the 1964 coup. Then
pected to pit Bolsonaro the administration in some trailing well behind leftist tial candidates from ask- he lauded his Cabinet for
against his political neme- of Brazil's farthest reaches, da Silva in a head-to-head ing for votes directly, but its work since he took office
sis, former President Luiz In- according to Carlos Melo, runoff that is likely to follow doesn't prohibit events that in 2019.q
Armenia, Azerbaijan leaders to meet amid recent fighting

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) on all issues related to the Armenia and Azerbaijan
— Armenian Prime Min- start of negotiations on a have been locked in a de-
ister Nikol Pashinyan said peace agreement," Pash- cades-old dispute over the
Thursday he will meet with inyan told a government separatist region, which lies
Azerbaijani President Ilham meeting Thursday. He said within Azerbaijan but was
Aliyev in Brussels next week Armenia "is ready for the under the control of ethnic
to lay the groundwork for immediate start of peace Armenian forces backed
peace talks to end the negotiations." by Armenia since a sepa-
decades-long conflict over Fighting between Arme- ratist war there ended in
the separatist region of Na- nian and Azerbaijani forc- 1994. The cease-fire in 2020
gorno-Karabakh. es reignited in Nagorno- was mediated by Russia,
The two leaders will meet in Karabakh this month, and which then sent some 2,000
Brussels on April 6 with Eu- three soldiers in the break- troops it called peace-
ropean Council President away region were killed last keepers to the region.
Charles Michel. week. Tensions on the two nations'
There have been recent More than 6,600 people shared border have been Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, attends talks with Azer-
baijan's President Ilham Aliyev, second left, and Armenian
clashes that have raised were killed in the six-week building since May, when Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, left, at the Kremlin in Moscow,
concerns about the stabil- war in 2020 that ended Armenia protested what it on Jan. 11, 2021.
ity of a cease-fire that end- with Azerbaijan reclaiming described as an incursion Associated Press
ed the 2020 war over the control over large parts of by Azerbaijani troops into
separatist region. Nagorno-Karabakh and its territory. Azerbaijan has where the border has yet tensified this month as Rus-
"I hope to discuss at this surrounding areas that the insisted that its soldiers were to be demarcated. sia became increasingly
meeting with the president Armenia-backed separat- deployed to what it con- Clashes have been report- bogged down in its inva-
of Azerbaijan and agree ists controlled. siders its territory in areas ed ever since, and they in- sion of Ukraine.q