“France loves Brazil”: mocked on the networks, Macron confirms his “marriage” with Lula in Brazil

Did Emmanuel Macron marry Lula? On Brazilian – and to a lesser extent French – social networks, dozens of photomontages were published this week that compare photographs of the two heads of state with the celebration of a wedding in the middle of the Amazon jungle.

“Some have compared the images of my visit to Brazil with those of a wedding, I tell you: it was one! France loves Brazil and Brazil loves France!”, reacted the President of the Republic, Count this Thursday, March 28. .

“They are going to get married in the Amazon and have their honeymoon in Paris”

On a three-day official visit to Brazil, Emmanuel Macron traveled to Belém (north) on Tuesday, where he met with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Dressed in white, the two men showed their closeness with many smiles and warm gestures.

Several of these images, most published on Lula’s official accounts on social networks, were widely disseminated on the Internet, with montages or humorous comments.

“They will get married in the Amazon and spend their honeymoon in Paris,” joked one Internet user, while many others thought that these photos could form a “wedding album.”

“A new page in the relationship between Brazil and France”

One of these montages, which shows Emmanuel Macron and Lula on the poster of The The Earth instead of Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, it was shared by the President of the Republic on his social networks late this Thursday. “We were able to walk together in this shared Amazon in Belém and confirm our common determination to fight for forests and people,” wrote the Elysée tenant.

Summarizing the different stages and announcements of his state visit, Emmanuel Macron welcomed “the new page in the relationship between Brazil and France” opened in March 2024.

Emmanuel Macron will return to Brazil for the G20, organized in November in Rio de Janeiro. Despite this distant relationship of a few months, the President of the Republic claims to “believe in the future.”

“We believe there is always a path to optimism and progress. We share values ​​that are at the heart of our common history,” he wrote.