The president of the republic on Saturday believed that regardless of parliament’s decision on April 25 will be “a good solution” and defended that relations between Portugal and Brazil are at a “more important level”.
“The relationship between Portugal and Brazil is important to us and I am sure that whatever solution the Assembly reaches, it is a good solution. Any solution of the Assembly of the Republic is a good solution, it is sovereign”said Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
In a speech to journalists arriving at the 140th anniversary ceremony of the Association for Instruction and Benevolence “A Voz do Operário”, in Lisbon, the head of state was asked whether the Minister of Foreign Affairs, João Gomes Cravinho, was too hasty was when he announced that Brazil’s President, Lula da Silva, would speak at the April 25 formal session of parliament.
“It is necessary to respect the competence of the Assembly of the Republic and the operation of the separation of powers,” he defended, pointing out that this “is in a plan that is very important.”
“But there is a more important plan, which is that of relations between Portugal and Brazil, and it is important that, after apologies are made, misunderstandings are cleared up and that is overcome, which is the fundamental theme of President Lula da Silva’s visit not a question that has nothing to do with fundamentals,” emphasized Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, emphasizing that the Brazilian community in Portugal consists of “400,000” people and “he represents all Brazilians.”
Pointing out that “it is the President of the Assembly who sets the agenda, after hearing the Conference of Leaders”, asked the head of state, “in full respect of the separation of powers and the word of the Assembly of the Republic”, that “regardless of what those people think, whether they like or dislike Lula da Silva, as it would be the same with Jair Bolsonaro, being for or against does not distort the fundamental question, that he is president of all Brazilians”.
The president of the republic also said he had not spoken to Lula da Silva since the announcement.
“I imagine that with all due respect to the issues raised, President Lula da Silva will be the first to understand that relations between the two countries are of such a level that they cannot be mixed with sensitivities arising out of what happened or took place. will not happen, and that I will not comment,” he added.
Marcelo hopes that Lula’s visit “goes well” and is not hampered by this issue, arguing that “it cannot be partisanship, the object of an internal political quarrel in which those who do not like him for ideological reasons take a stand and those who love him many of them take a different position.”
The president of the republic said he hopes that “issues related to aspects of protocol respect, or different views” on the decision and how it is taken do not prevent “the essential thing is that a visit important to Portugal goes well , that the summit between the governments of Portugal and Brazil is going well, that the contact with the Brazilian community, everything is going well”.
And then coinciding with April 25, it’s also good that things are going well and there’s no problem because of that coincidence and that the coincidence of dates, instead of being a coincidence that means a good coincidence, no, become a bad coincidence he noted.
Source: DN
