Portugal’s head of state, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, met Brazil’s president-elect Lula da Silva at dawn this Monday, reiterating the importance of good bilateral relations.
This information is contained in a note published on the Internet on the official website of the Presidency of the Portuguese Republic.
“Following yesterday’s congratulatory message [domingo] In the early hours of Lisbon, the President of the Republic spoke by telephone with Brazil’s President-elect Lula da Silva, who both reiterated the importance of good relations between the two peoples and the two sister countries,” the note reads.
On Sunday, shortly after Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court (STE) held the second round of the presidential election, as mathematically defined, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa congratulated Lula da Silva on his victory over incumbent Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
In a message released around 11 p.m. in mainland Portugal, Portuguese head of state Luiz Inácio congratulated Lula da Silva and expressed “certainty that the mandate, which takes effect in January, will correspond to a promising period in fraternal relations.” between the Brazilian and Portuguese peoples and thus also between the two states”.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa had already announced before these elections that he would attend the inauguration of Brazil’s next president, on January 1, 2023, in Brasília.
Source: DN
