President Chega said it was “outrageous” that the PSD welcomed the “presence of Lula da Silva on April 25 in Portugal” after the Social Democrats this Sunday criticized the Brazilian president for the war in Ukraine.
“It is outrageous to see the party that should lead the centre-right say it welcomes the presence of Lula da Silva on April 25 in Portugal, the day of the democratic conquest,” Andre Ventura said in a video sent by Chega. in editorial.
In the video, Chega’s president confirmed that the party is “even organizing the largest ever demonstration against a foreign dignitary in Portugal”, mobilizing “Portuguese and Brazilians, anyone who wants to join, to show that the centre-right and the Portuguese right are not the PSD, they are not these PSD”.
President Chega called for Lula da Silva to be condemned for his “closeness to Russia”, for “failure to see the suffering of the Ukrainian people”, for “his closeness to China”, for his “hesitancy in condemning the South American dictatorship” and for “corruption ”, although decisions condemning the Brazilian president in this area were annulled due to procedural errors and violations.
PSD Vice President Paulo Rangel this Sunday urged the government to “take a public and official position” by distancing itself from statements by the Brazilian president that the European Union, NATO and the US are encouraging war in Ukraine.
Stressing the “fundamental importance” of Lula da Silva’s “timely and useful” visit to Portugal within a few days, and ensuring that the SDP would do everything to ensure that it was “successful” and allowed for a “resolute resumption” of common ties between the two countries, Paulo Rangel believed, that António Costa “must take a public and official stand” in the face of “the repeated positions taken by the Brazilian state through its supreme magistrate”.
The leader of the Liberal Initiative, Rui Rocha, also defended the fact 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.
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.”
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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