The leader of the Liberal Initiative, Rui Rocha, this Sunday defended that the Assembly of the Republic “cannot accept such an ally of Putin as Lula on April 25”, recalling that the President of Ukraine spoke via videoconference in the same parliament.
“Assembly of the Republic [AR] who invited Zelensky to speak on April 21, 2022, cannot accept a Putin ally like Lula on April 25. And the president of the republic, who awarded Zelensky with the Order of Freedom, cannot be pleased with the presence of such an ally of Putin as Lula in the AR on April 25,” Rui Rocha wrote on Twitter.
This Sunday morning, the SDP, through its First Vice President Paulo Rangel, called on the government to “take a public and official position” distancing itself from statements by the Brazilian President that the European Union, NATO (Atlantic Alliance) and the United States are fueling war in Ukraine.
IL has already criticized this week that the meeting of the greeting of the President of Brazil in the Portuguese Parliament was scheduled on the same day as the solemn meeting on April 25 (the first at 10:00, the second at 11:30). am) and announced that he would only officially present at the session dedicated to Lula da Silva.
The leader of the Parliament, Rodrigo Saraiva, then said that this coincidence of dates means “instrumentalization of that date of freedom”, which for Portugal represents April 25th.
The presence in parliament of the President of Brazil, who is visiting Portugal from 22 to 25 April, is controversial, as Foreign Minister João Gomes Cravinho spoke out in February in Lula da Silva’s speech at the official meeting of the April Revolution in the Assembly of the Republic, highlighting its unprecedented nature. , which deserved the opposition of the SDP, IL and Chega.
In the end, Parliament decided that instead of speaking at the annual commemorative commemoration session, the President of Brazil would hold a separate welcome session that same day during Lula da Silva’s state visit to Portugal.
On Saturday, the Brazilian president said after a visit to China that “the United States should stop encouraging war” in Ukraine and “the European Union should start talking about peace.”
Thus, he explained to reporters, the international community will be able to “convince” Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky that “peace is in the interests of the whole world.”
“It takes patience” to talk to Putin and Zelensky, he said. “But first of all, we must convince the countries that supply weapons, that encourage war, to stop,” he added.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will arrive in Brasilia on Monday, where he will be received at the Itamaraty Palace by his colleague Mauro Vieira.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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