PS, PSD, BE, IL and PAN showed up this Wednesday for a formal welcome session for the Brazilian president, with the exception of Chega, who said he was “vehemently against” Lula da Silva’s presence in the Portuguese parliament.
The political parties expressed their position after the President of the Republic’s Assembly, Augusto Santos Silva, announced that the parliament will host a formal welcoming session for Brazil’s President, Lula da Silva, with the date yet to be determined.
Speaking to journalists, the PS parliamentary leader expressed the party’s agreement at the end of the Leaders’ Conference meeting, believing that the solution found “is an adequate framework” to support the head of state of a “friendly country, brother, CPLP partner”.
Eurico Brilhante Dias defended that bilateral relations are “important for both countries” and stressed that the “PS was not against this formal session on April 25”.
The parliamentary leader of the PSD, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, agreed to the option of “receiving the President of Brazil in a solemn session, with the dignity that the country and the head of state deserve, but not in the solemn session of April 25. in solemn session commemorating the Carnation Revolution”.
For the Liberal Initiative (IL), the president of the parliamentary group, Rodrigo Saraiva, pointed out that Santos Silva’s proposal was “in line” with what the IL defended and stressed that Lula da Silva “will be received in a specific session and not at the April 25 formal session,” proposing to hold it on April 24.
Rodrigo Saraiva also believed that “today the dignity of the Assembly of the Republic as a sovereign body was reaffirmed”.
The blockista Pedro Filipe Soares said that the “reception in the Assembly of the Republic of President Lula da Silva” has the “full agreement” of the BE, either on April 25 or “in a session the day before”.
The parliamentary leader of BE also expressed his “rejection” of “any intention of coup d’état to bring the Assembly of the Republic into the mire at the reception of Lula da Silva” and, claiming to refer to Chega, stressed that it ” it is incomprehensible that every appeal uses violence, even verbally, at the reception of a head of state, even for more than one sister country, such as Brazil”.
The lone member of the PAN said she “accompanies the proposal put forward” by the President of the Assembly of the Republic, as holding a formal welcome session is the most basic of wisdom. Inês Sousa Real defended that the Minister of Foreign Affairs “owes an apology to the Assembly of the Republic for exceeding its powers and for fundamentally not respecting the autonomy and sovereignty of this body” when he announced that the Brazilian President would the Portuguese Parliament would speak. on April 25.
For his part, Chega’s parliamentary leader said the party is “strongly opposed to the arrival of President Lula da Silva to the Portuguese parliament” and “even more so during the April 25 celebrations”.
The deputy from Chega – the party that supported Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil’s last presidential election – referred to “Lula da Silva’s past linked to corruption” and said that “if there is one thing April 25 should have brought, it was in particular a fight against corruption”.
Source: DN
