The Prime Minister spoke this Monday with the President of Brazil, Lula da Silva, who expressed his solidarity and reiterated his condemnation of the violent acts in Brasilia, in a conversation in which they began to prepare for the bilateral summit in April.
“I spoke today with President Lula da Silva, to whom I expressed our solidarity and reiterated the condemnation of the violent and undemocratic acts that occurred yesterday. [domingo] in Brasilia”, wrote António Costa on his account on the social network Twitter.
In the same message, the head of the Portuguese executive affirms that he and the Brazilian head of state are “focused and committed to relaunching the relationship between Portugal and Brazil.”
“We have already started working on the next bilateral summit, in April,” he added.
António Costa received Lula da Silva in Lisbon, on November 18, as president-elect of Brazil, after his return from COP27 in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt.
The Portuguese prime minister then received Lula da Silva with a long hug and, in front of the journalists, made an “L” with his fingers, a symbol of the campaign of the president-elect of Brazil.
On Sunday, through a statement, the Portuguese government condemned the “violence and disorder” in Brasilia, after supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro invaded the headquarters of the three powers, and reiterated its “unequivocal support for the Brazilian authorities”. .
“The Portuguese government condemns the acts of violence and disorder that occurred today in Brasilia, reiterating its unequivocal support for the Brazilian authorities in restoring order and legality,” underlines the statement released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In the same note, the Portuguese executive conveyed his “full solidarity with the Presidency of the Republic of Brazil, Congress and the Federal Supreme Court, whose buildings were violated in the anti-democratic demonstrations that took place this afternoon.”
Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro invaded and vandalized the headquarters of the Federal Supreme Court, Congress and the Planalto Palace in Brasilia on Sunday, forcing police to intervene to restore order and drawing condemnation from the international community.
The Military Police managed to retake control of the headquarters of the three powers, in an operation that resulted in at least 300 detainees.
The invasion began after militants from the Brazilian extreme right, supporters of the former president, defeated by Lula da Silva in last October’s elections, called a protest on the Esplanada dos Ministérios.
However, the judge of the Federal Supreme Court Alexandre de Moraes dismissed the governor of the Federal District, Ibaneis Rocha, for 90 days, considering that both the governor and the former Secretary of Security and former Minister of Justice of Bolsonaro Anderson Torres have acted with negligence and omission .
Source: TSF
