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Target of media and far-right hysteria, Janja posts photo of Lula's new tie.

First Lady attacked for buying, with her own money, a tie for the president in Portugal.

President Lula's new tie (Photo: Rosângela Silva's Twitter)

247 - First Lady Rosângela Silva, known as Janja, reacted with good humor to the hysteria of the commercial media and the Brazilian far-right—sectors that often overlap—after buying a tie for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Portugal. Check it out:

Yesterday, she left the hotel where the couple is staying in Lisbon and went to the Zegna boutique, where she bought a tie for the president with her own money – a move that scandalized sectors of the Brazilian far-right. This hysteria was seen by several analysts as class prejudice against the president, who has a background in labor unions and the working class.