A meeting between friends with “joy”. That was the climate that prevailed first in Lula da Silva’s meeting with her Portuguese counterpart, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and then with António Costa. In São Bento, the Prime Minister surprised by making an ‘L’, the gesture of support for the candidacy of the President-elect, who not only paid a visit to mark the reunion between Portugal and Brazil after four years apart — also confessed that he came to learn about the “political intelligence” of his hosts and to study the contraption.
“I came to learn from the prime minister, because they invented a gadget that won the elections,” Lula da Silva said, noting that António Costa was later able to “fix the Portuguese economy.” And then, he continued, the Brazilian president-elect said that he had seen news that the Portuguese chief executive “was going to lose”, but he ended up “winning by himself” and obtaining the majority.
Thus, Lula da Silva’s visit to Lisbon was partly aimed at “learning from the successes of the President and the Prime Minister”. The reason? “To see if we can do the same in Brazil and make it work”, assumed. This in a scenario where the PT candidate does not have a majority in parliament, that is in the hands of the right, which promises to complicate his mandate.
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Source: Observadora
