The parliamentary leader of BE criticized this Thursday the “sad image” of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa as “an extra in the Bolsonaro rally”, showing himself uncomfortable with a president of the Republic “who does not give himself the respect” that Portugal deserves.
“Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, president of Portugal, was an extra at the Bolsonaro rally that became the ceremony to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the independence of Brazil. Sad image of Marcelo and sad image that he transmitted from Portugal”, criticized Pedro Filipe Soares in a publication on the social network. twitter.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, president of Portugal, was an extra at Bolsonaro’s rally that became the ceremony to mark the 200th anniversary of Brazil’s independence.
Sad image of Marcelo and sad image that he transmitted from Portugal pic.twitter.com/aev8p2RnE2– Pedro Filipe Soares (@PedroFgSoares) September 8, 2022
According to the bloc’s leader, “after a sexist and insulting speech by Bolsonaro, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa had yet to make way for a businessman.”
“In the end, Marcelo said it didn’t bother him. He was very uncomfortable with a president who does not give himself the respect that the country he represents deserves, ”he lamented.
The Portuguese head of state, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, said Wednesday that he was in Brazil “in a historic gesture” and denied discomfort at having witnessed the civic-military parade on September 7 with Jair Bolsonaro.
Marcelo says he is in Brazil representing Portugal at a “historic moment” and denies any inconvenience
This publication by Pedro Filipe Soares is accompanied by a photograph of the grandstand of this parade in which Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa appears together with Jair Bolsonaro, who is holding a Brazilian flag whose center has been changed to place the image of a baby and where you can read “Brazil without abortion, Brazil without drugs”.
Speaking to the media on Wednesday in Brasilia, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said that “from where he was he did not listen” to the slogans shouted by the crowd in support of the President of Brazil and against Lula da Silva, his opponent in the ongoing campaign for the presidential elections on October 2.
When asked if he felt comfortable having been at this ceremony, the Portuguese president replied: “Yes, yes”.
“I am here to represent Portugal in a historic moment, whoever is the president. People need to understand the following: the election campaign lasts X times, the president’s term lasts much longer, and the 200-year history lasts much longer. And what remains for history is that Portugal was present at a historic moment”, he declared.
Source: Observadora
