Marcelo and Santos Silva represent Portugal in the bicentennial of Brazil’s independence
The head of state, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and the president of the Assembly of the Republic, Augusto Santos Silva, will represent Portugal in the celebrations of the bicentennial of the independence of Brazil this week.
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Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa travels to Brazil at the invitation of his counterpart, Jair Bolsonaro, by whom he will be received this Tuesday at the Itamaraty Palace, shortly after arriving in Brasília.
Augusto Santos Silva, the second figure in the Portuguese state, will be in Brasília at the invitation of the president of the Brazilian Federal Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco.
The program of the Portuguese head of state, who travels today from Lisbon to the Brazilian capital, begins with a short bilateral meeting with Jair Bolsonaro, at 18:30 (22:30 in Lisbon), with an expected duration of 15 minutes.
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According to the Presidency of the Portuguese Republic, the President of Brazil will not receive the same format as the other heads of state of countries of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) presented in Brasília.
Next, the Portuguese head of state will visit an exhibition on D. Pedro I of Brazil and IV of Portugal, at Itamaraty, and will be at a reception commemorating the bicentennial of Brazil’s independence, at the palace.
The celebrations of the independence of Brazil take place when the bicentennial of the independence of Brazil takes place when, in October, the official campaign for the October 2 elections, to which are the candidates, among others, Bolsonaro and President Luiz Inácio. Lula da Silva.
On Wednesday, the day that marks the proclamation of Brazil’s independence in 1822, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa will attend the civic-military parade on 7 September, will offer a lunch to the heads of State and Government of the CPLP at the ambassador’s residence of Portugal in Brasília and will have a meeting with the Portuguese community in this city.
In the evening, the President of the Republic and the President of the Assembly of the Republic will attend a dinner hosted by the President of the Senate of Brazil, Rodrigo Pacheco.
On Thursday, the bicentennial of Brazil’s independence will be celebrated in a solemn session at the National Congress, in which Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa will speak and in which Augusto Santos Silva will also be present.
The head of state’s program in Brazil ends with a reception for the Portuguese community at the Navio Escola Sagres, in Rio de Janeiro, on Friday.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has been in Brazil for two months, between the 2nd and the 4th of December, with visits to Rio de Janeiro, where he marked the centenary of the first air crossing of the South Atlantic, and July to São Paulo, for the opening of the Book Biennial, which in this year’s edition, Portugal was honored.
It was planned to end this visit in Brasília, with a lunch with the President of Brazil, but Jair Bolsonaro made it known through the media that he would no longer receive him, a decision that was justified by the fact that Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa had met Lula da Silva, in Sao Paulo.
Faced with Bolsonaro’s attitude, Rebelo began by writing Bolsonaro’s program, and then gave up communicating with the impact of going to Brazil always, but always this episode and bilateral relations.
At the same time, the return to Brazil in September was successful, as well as the return to Brazil in September, for the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of independence: “The Senate has already years for me to be the speaker. But the president of the Portuguese parliament is coming with me [Augusto Santos Silva]and the Government will come with me, to show that everyone’s sovereign bodies are here at the moment”, declared at the time.