Marcelo speaks of Portugal and Brazil as inseparable realities with shared territories
In a speech at the Associação Portuguesa de Brasília, in Taguatinga, in the Federal District, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa once again justified his presence in the commemorations of the 200th anniversary of the independence of Brazil and highlighted an aspect of the 7th of September parade that he watched in the morning alongside Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
“What a proud parade, what a pride to see parade today on the avenues of Brasilia as the flags of Portugal since the foundation, the flags of the time of the Portuguese monarchy until the moment when Brazil separated from Portugal. the flags of Portugal that were also of Brazil before the separation.
The Portuguese President added that “Brazil already existed when Pedro Álvares Cabral arrived, there already was, but Brazil here became different with the Portuguese contributor after that arrival, and for centuries here a fraternal friendship was created forever, forever also “.
“For 200 years, the cry of Ipiranga, a son of a king, Portuguese, who rebels against his father, giving voice to what was the will of independence of the Brazilian people”, said, prince receiving the Brazilian people by Portuguese and Portuguese emigrants. -Brazilians.
D. Pedro specified in 1822 “the difficult origin of being the first emperor of Brazil” and it is necessary to understand “the importance of origin”, defended.
“Spain was also here, in Central America and South America, but a State was not born of this presence, several States were born. Here there is only one powerful State, united, made by Brazilians and made by Portuguese pioneers who travel kilometers and kilometers inland leading as the borders of the future state to where they are — and they have reached further, as you know”, he continued.
According to the Portuguese President, “Brazil’s unity has a lot to do with the fact that a court from Portugal came to Brazil”, a unique situation in which “Portugal became for a time, in political terms, a colony of Brazil: the court was here, as institutions of empire power were here”.
In his view, “this provided for territorial unity, but also provided for a secular relationship between the sisters”.
Upon arriving at the Associação Portuguesa de Brasília, created in 1962, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said that “this is Portugal” and later in his speech he resumed the idea that he is “in Portuguese territory” and maintained that the two realities “are inseparable, where there is Portugal there is Brazil, where there is Brazil there is Portugal”.
The Portuguese head of state took this image longer, stating that “all of Brazil in the end is Portuguese territory, and all of Portugal is Brazilian territory”.
“But there are territories that are especially Portuguese: an embassy, consulates, and wherever there is a Portuguese, a community of Portuguese, a Portuguese association. This is Portuguese soil”, he reinforced.
Marcelo Rebelo as “new generations of immigrants in Brazil, signs here a recent promotion for a Brazilian order”, signaled a novelty for the Brazilian order, “as well as a promotion for Brazil, concluding the order and for Brazil, concluding that there is a progress for Brazil, concluding that there is a link that “is unstoppable” regardless of the presidents and governments.
“What the representation of the people has is to perceive reality, which will work according to it, according to it, to justify its commemoration in the commemorations of this bicentennial in the commemorations of this bicentennial in the elections for the election of the President of Brazil”.
“I have the impression that many do not understand the historic moment”, he lamented.