IL warned on Tuesday that if Parliament held a session on the same day to welcome the President of Brazil and a solemn session on April 25, the party would be institutionally represented only by the leader of Parliament.
Rodrigo Saraiva spoke to reporters in parliament on the eve of the leaders’ conference, which is to organize both the regular commemorative session on April 25 and a session in honor of Lula da Silva.
“If the welcoming session of the President of the Federative Republic of Brazil does not take place on April 25, IL will be present at this session, as we were at the meeting of the heads of other states,” he assured. that this will happen regardless, Lula da Silva was also present as a guest at the ceremony marking the 1974 revolution.
However, if Parliament schedules a welcoming session for Lula da Silva for April 25 “before or after the official session”, IL believes that this will be “an instrumentalization of this date of freedom” and will act differently.
“IL will only be represented institutionally, I will be the only one present who will demonstrate that the parliamentary group respects the head of state of the brother country if there is an insistence on holding a welcoming session before the official session on April 25th. “, he announced.
Rodrigo Saraiva stressed his respect for the Brazilian people and the dignity of the institutions, and assured that the attitude would be the same if the guest was the previous President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro.
“We recognize in the current Brazilian president a history of fighting for freedom, against dictatorship, but at the moment there is a war going on in Europe and the Brazilian president was not on the right side of history like his predecessor,” he added. .
Asked if he had any information that the two sessions would take place on the same day, April 25, Rodrigo Saraiva said he hoped the issue would be taken up at Wednesday’s leadership conference and that both meetings would have ” elasticity of the agenda. sides so as not to match.
“Mixing the welcoming session with the date when our freedom is celebrated is something we cannot understand,” he repeated.
In December, when he traveled to Brasilia for the inauguration of Lula da Silva, the Portuguese head of state announced that the Brazilian President would travel to Portugal for a Portuguese-Brazilian summit and state visit from 22 to 25 April this year, culminating in his participation in the ceremony on 25 April .
In February, Foreign Minister João Gomes Cravinho spoke bluntly in a speech by the President of Brazil to the Assembly of the Republic session on 25 April, noting its unprecedented nature, causing controversy and drawing criticism for being a ceremony. under the responsibility of Parliament.
Instead of a speech by the President of Brazil at the solemn annual commemorative meeting on April 25, Parliament decided to hold a separate welcoming session during the state visit of Lula da Silva to Portugal, also with the opposition He arrives.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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