President of Portugal responds after Bolsonaro cancels meeting | World
The President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, took a position after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) canceled a meeting between the two scheduled to take place next Monday (4).
“Whoever invites for lunch is the one who wants to have lunch or not. If the president of the Federative Republic of Brazil understands that he can, he does not want to, he is not postponed, that he does not enter into his schedule. the Portuguese.
In his blog on g1, Valdo Cruz reported that President Jair Bolsonaro, a pre-candidate for reelection by the PL, decided to impose retaliation against the President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. During a visit he will make to Brazil, the Portuguese head of state had a scheduled audience with Bolsonaro next Monday (4), in Brasília. But the Brazilian president sent word to the Portuguese that the hearing is closed if Rebelo de Sousa meets with former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the PT’s pre-candidate for the presidency.
Even without an official statement presented to Rebelo, he said he understood Bolsonaro’s political positions and stated a different difference that the two countries think about the War in Ukraine.
“I understand that there are political issues. Portugal is an ally of Ukraine, Brazil is not. Now lunch is an issue that was not included in the first program of the trip to Brazil. Lunch is possible, fine. (If) It is not possible, nobody dies”, he commented, informing that there would be no major problems due to this mismatch.
Rebelo also confirmed that he intends to meet both ex-Brazilians Lula (PT presidential candidate), as well as Michel Temer and Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
“The relations between Portugal and Brazil are between peoples”, concludes Rebelo.