Brazil’s President-elect Lula da Silva will be allowed to travel to Lisbon next week as part of his trip to participate in the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27), in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt.
The possibility that Lula da Silva would meet the Prime Minister, António Costa, in Lisbon was conceded to Lusa by a source in the executive branch.
According to the Expresso newspaper, with a confirmed presence at COP27, Brazil’s president-elect is analyzing the possibility of starting his international tour in Lisbon, even before taking office in Brasília on January 1.
On Monday, during COP27, António Costa, in one of his speeches at this climate summit, welcomed the position of Brazil’s president-elect in defense of the Amazon rainforest.
“It is with renewed hope that Brazil’s President-elect Lula da Silva was heard to renew his commitment to zero deforestation of the Amazon rainforest,” the leader of the Portuguese executive said, during a roundtable attended by the Presidents of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, of the Council, Charles Michel, and the Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, among other political leaders.
As secretary general of the PS, António Costa expressed his support for Lula da Silva in the campaign for the second round of the Brazilian presidential election.
Source: DN
