Lula’s party acknowledges Maduro’s victory, but the Brazilian remains cautious and speaks to Biden today about Venezuela

Despite the cautious stance of the Brazilian government and diplomacy, Lula da Silva’s Workers’ Party (PT) has officially recognized the re-election of President Nicolás Maduro in last Sunday’s elections in Venezuela, the results of which are questioned by the international community. The recognition was made in an official statement by the National Executive Commission, the highest body of Lula’s party, while the Brazilian president, who is due to speak with Joe Biden on the issue on Tuesday, had remained silent until this Tuesday about Lula’s supposed victory. Venezuelan ally and friend.

In a statement that raised eyebrows, given that the PT is very closely led by Lula da Silva himself and nothing happens without the president’s sanction, the party said that Nicolás Maduro’s reelection was a clear expression of democracy in Venezuela and congratulated the country and the authorities for holding the presidential elections peacefully this Sunday. In the text, Lula da Silva’s party also said that it hoped that President Nicolás Maduro would support what the PT calls an open dialogue with the opposition forces so that together they can solve Venezuela’s serious problems, which sounds strange given that in its neighboring country, Brazil, there is no dialogue or negotiations between the two sides and the Maduro government has brutally repressed opponents.

In contrast to his party’s position, Lula da Silva had remained completely silent on the Venezuelan elections until Tuesday afternoon. South American countries should have taken a position by now. Lula, who in what was also considered a mistake by Brazilian diplomacy, sent an adviser to Caracas to accompany the presidential elections in Venezuela, is waiting for the return of this special envoy Celso Amorim to Brazil late Tuesday to learn more than what his adviser for international affairs found in the neighboring country.

Also this afternoon, Brazil time, around 7:30 p.m. in Lisbon, Lula and US President Joe Biden will speak by phone at the American’s request about Maduro’s disputed reelection. Biden wants Lula, who knows Maduro and the realities of Venezuela well, to give him more details about what is really happening in the neighboring country and to try to persuade Brazil and the US to take a common or similar position.

Officially, Brazil’s position is to wait for Venezuela to publish the election protocols, or as they say in Brazil, the ballots, on the basis of which the victory of Nicolás Maduro was declared, who was even hastily dismissed this Monday amid street protests that left several people dead. Opposition sources guarantee that the opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia won the presidential election with 70% of the vote, while independent media estimate that he was in fact the winner, but with about 66% of the vote, and that Maduro’s victory was fraudulent.