Braz Pres Bolsonaro Touts Domestic Policy And Attacks Lula At UNGA Address

President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro is now delivering an address to the United Nations General Assembly. Bolsonaro is the first leader to address the assembly and will be hoping the platform will raise his domestic standing ahead of a tight election next month.

• Livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpnpBS1Zsts
• Bolsonaro talks up domestic success of his administration's COVID-19 policies: "Our goal was to protect families' income, therefore was managed to benefit 68 million people... In parallel we launched a broad ranging vaccination program... We are a nation of more than 210 million and we have more than 80% of our population vaccinated voluntarily against COVID-19."
• Bolsonaro uses his address to attack his presidential challenger Lula: "Under my administration we uprooted the systemic corruption that existed in the country between 2003 and 2015, the period during which the left-wing presided over the country."