The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, said this Thursday, in response to a question about a possible trip to Portugal, Jair Bolsonaro, who in principle accepts democratically elected former SPS presidents if they ask for an audience.
“It must be the person who asks for an audience, I can’t call and say: look, do you want to talk to me?” Marcelo Rebelo de Souza said, addressing reporters at a hotel in Santo Domingo.
“If a former president of Brazil asks for an audience, I get it – like I got it, and I was in Brazil and I was in Portugal with a few,” he added.
The head of state, who is in the Dominican Republic on an official visit, applied the same criteria to all former presidents of countries belonging to the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP): “He was the head of the Brazilian state, a country belonging to the CPLP, democratically elected, I, Obviously I do.”
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa talked about a possible trip by former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to Portugal at the invitation of President Chega Andre Ventura to meet with far-right figures from several countries.
Earlier, the head of state expressed regret that Brazilian President Lula da Silva will not attend the Ibero-American Summit, which will be held on Friday and Saturday in the Dominican Republic, in connection with his visit to the People’s Republic of China, which begins on Sunday.
“It is a pity that neither President Lula nor Brazilian Vice President Alcmine came. But things are the way they are, some come, others don’t,” he said.
Today at a press conference in Lisbon, without specifying either a confirmed presence or a date for this meeting, Andre Ventura said he wants to hold a “massive event” in Lisbon, to which he invited Jair Bolsonaro, as well as the former North American president, Donald Trump and other politicians .
President Chegi said that he informed the President of the Republic about this and went on: “I don’t think I’m going to express any distrust and the President of the Republic will forgive me for what I’m going to do. say now, but I hope it is not inconfidência: I even know that Professor Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of the Republic, can receive Jair Bolsonaro if he asks for it, and is in Lisbon.”
“This was conveyed to me by him himself, I hope that he does not take it wrong, because I think that this is a gesture worth noting and it is a gesture of goodwill on the part of our President of the Republic, which he would like to emphasize showed me an immediate availability to receive President Jair Bolsonaro if he asks for it, even though he is no longer President,” Andre Ventura repeated.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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