The Portuguese head of state will meet Lula da Silva in Brasilia on Monday, the day after his inauguration as Brazil’s president, and on Sunday he will have lunch with King Felipe VI of Spain.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa announced these meetings in statements to journalists at a hotel in the Brazilian capital, where he arrived that day to represent the Portuguese State in the inauguration of Lula da Silva as president of Brazil, on Sunday, January 1.
His meeting with Lula da Silva, with delegations from both countries, “it will be in principle at 11:00 on day 2“said the head of state.
“On the day of the inauguration, I have lunch with the King of Spain, whom I have not seen for a long time. We always met three, four times a year, this year we had not met since May, it was not possible. let’s do it here a very good meeting lunch for both countriesadded Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
On the evening of December 31, the Portuguese Head of State will have dinner with other Heads of State and representatives of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) who are also in Brasilia.
As president-elect of Brazil, Lula da Silva already visited Portugal, between November 18 and 19, after having participated in the 27th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP27), in Egypt. On that occasion, he was received by the Portuguese Head of State and Prime Minister, António Costa, in Lisbon.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa announced today that Lula da Silva will return to Portugal as President of Brazil on a state visit and for a summit between Governments of Portugal and Brazil from April 22 to 25.
When he visited Brazil in July of this year and in 2021, the Portuguese president met with Lula da Silva in São Paulo and with other former presidents of Brazil.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who already served two terms as president of Brazil, between 2003 and 2011, was re-elected on October 30, in the second round of the Brazilian presidential election, with 50.9% of the votesdefeating the current Brazilian head of state, Jair Bolsonaro.
That night, shortly after the Brazilian Supreme Electoral Tribunal declared the election mathematically defined, the Portuguese head of state congratulated Lula da Silva and expressed his certainty that his mandate “will correspond to a promising period in fraternal relations” with Portugal.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa announced in September, when the electoral campaign was taking place, that he intended to be present at the inauguration of the next president of Brazil.
Source: Observadora
