Coincidentally, his honeymoon in Lisbon made him witness the Carnation Revolution. On April 25, 1974, José Múcio was 25 years old, and all his life he kept thinking that that same opportunity had finally offered him a kind of taluda of fate. In December, he accepted an invitation to become defense minister in President Lula da Silva’s third administration, returning to a political life he thought was over. It should be recalled that in 2007, after holding various local and national positions, he took up the institutional relations portfolio and was appointed a member of the Court of Auditors in 2009. On December 11, 2018, he was sworn in as President of this institution, which he left in December 2020, when he retired. During the farewell ceremony, he emphasized the value he always placed on dialogue: “I have tried unceasingly throughout these years and throughout my life to build bridges, because I believe that the best solutions are the result of the sum of different points of view”.
José Múcio was in Portugal as part of Lula da Silva’s entourage, but eventually stayed longer to participate in the Mafra Dialogues – Interreligious Dialogue and Global Peace, promoted by the Institute for the Promotion of Latin America and the Caribbean, that gathered in the monastery of Mafra several diplomats, specialists in international relations and religious leaders with a vocation for dialogue.
Source: DN
