Neither former president Lula da Silva (2003-2011) nor suspended president Dilma Rousseff will attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on 5 August. Despite earlier referring to herself as the “mother” and Lula as the “father” of Rio de Janeiro’s turn to host the global sporting event, an adviser to Rousseff told the press this week that she would no longer attend. The comment came soon after Rousseff told an international radio station that she would not accept a “secondary” position at the Olympics. Any disappointment that Rousseff or Lula may feel must be tempered by the knowledge that if anything now goes wrong, particularly as regards security, blame will be laid squarely at the feet of the interim president, Michel Temer.End of preview - This article contains approximately 671 words.
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