The Portuguese head of state, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, spoke today of Portugal and Brazil as inseparable realities with shared territories, praising the contribution of the Portuguese to the Brazilian nation since their arrival.
In a speech at the Associação Portuguesa de Brasília, in Taguatinga, Federal District, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa once again justified his presence at the commemorations of the 200th anniversary of Brazil’s independence and highlighted an aspect of the parade on September 7 that saw in the morning with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
“What pride, what pride to see the flags of Portugal parade in the avenues of Brasilia today since its foundation, the flags from the time of the Portuguese monarchy until the moment when Brazil separated from Portugal. With the flags of Portugal that were also of Brazil before the separation. Why? Because it assumes its History”, he declared.
The Portuguese president added that “Brazil already existed when Pedro Álvares Cabral arrived here, it already existed, but Brazil also became different with the contribution of the Portuguese after this arrival, and for centuries a fraternal friendship was created here forever, forever.” ”.
“200 years ago it was a Portuguese who proclaimed the cry of Ipiranga, a son of a king, a prince, who rebels against his father, giving voice to what was the desire for independence of the Brazilian people,” he said, receiving applause. of the public made up of Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian emigrants.
D. Pedro assumed in 1822 “the difficult mission of being the first emperor of Brazil” and it is necessary to understand “the importance of this gesture”, he defended.
“Spain was also here, in Central and South America, but from that presence a State was not born, several States were born. Here is a single state, powerful, united, made by Brazilians and made by Portuguese pioneers who traveled miles and miles. kilometers inland, bringing the borders of the future State to where they are, and beyond, as you know,” he continued.
According to the Portuguese president, “the unity of Brazil has a lot to do with the fact that the Portuguese court came to Brazil”, a unique situation in which “Portugal became for a time, in political terms, a colony of Brazil : he was here, the power institutions of the empire were here”.
In his opinion, “this contributed to territorial unity, but also contributed to a secular relationship between the sister nations.”
Upon arriving at the Associação Portuguesa de Brasília, created in 1962, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said that “this is Portugal” and later, in his speech, he took up the idea that he was “in Portuguese territory” and maintained that the two realities “are inseparable, where Portugal is, there is Brazil, where Brazil is, there is Portugal”.
The Portuguese head of state took this image further by stating that “all of Brazil is Portuguese territory and all of Portugal is Brazilian territory.”
“But there are territories that are especially Portuguese: the embassy, the consulates, and where there is a Portuguese, a community of Portuguese, a Portuguese association. This is Portuguese soil”, she reinforced.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa praised the “several generations” of Portuguese emigrants in Brazil, “here contributing to the order and progress that is the motto of the Brazilian nation”, and highlighted the recent wave of immigration from Brazil to Portugal, concluding that there is a link that “is unstoppable” regardless of the presidents and governments.
“What those responsible for the people have is to perceive reality and act according to it, according to it,” he argued, to justify his presence at the commemorations of this bicentennial, which coincides with the campaign for the election of the next President of Brazil. .
“I have the impression that many do not understand the historical moment,” he lamented.
Source: TSF
