“I am here to represent Portugal in a historic moment, whoever the President was”, says Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
The President of the Republic, Wednesday in Brazil as part of the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the Independence of Brazil, said that “this is a historic moment” and “it is historic not because there is an election, but because it is 200 years of a Brazil independent”.
“I am here to represent Portugal at any time whatever the President”, assured Marcelo de Sousa.
“Portugal has diplomatic relations with democracies and dictatorships”, he said, adding that “what matters is that there are a million Portuguese living in Brazil and there are 250,000 Brazilians in Portugal”. “And these will continue to live regardless of the Brazilian President and government”.
Asked at the ceremony that he was no longer a Brazilian about the idea with President Sousair Bolsonaro, Marcelo said that he would support two heads of other designated countries from the journalist community who supported two heads of other designated countries from the journalist community who would support the from anyone. that it was a party meeting.
The Head of State said that it is also unrelated to the celebrations of that date.
“This is part of the logic of these public ceremonies”, he stressed, adding that, yesterday, when he left the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, he was cheered, but that he was also the target of jeering.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa guaranteed that, “in the rostrum where he was”, not the words that were uttered by Bolsonaro supporters he heard against rival Lula da Silva. In that same rostrum, there will be a Brazilian businessman who is suspected of having defended a takeover of power if Lula da Silva wins, but Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa assured that he is not aware of this fact and that he does not control who meets him.
It should be remembered that Brazil is in the electoral process, which opposes the incumbent labor Bolsonaro Lula da Silva, in a campaign that is being marked by a strong polarization of the Brazilian and the receipts that society can generate to generate a deep social upheaval in the country.