André Ventura considered this Sunday “outrageous” that the PSD Sanidad came from Lula to Portugal on April 25 and promised to commemorate the date with “the largest demonstration ever against a foreign dignitary.”
The president of Chega considered it “outrageous” that the PSD salutes “the presence of Lula da Silva on April 25 in Portugal”, after the Social Democrats criticized the Brazilian president on Sunday about the war in Ukraine.
“It is outrageous to see a party that should lead the center-right say that it welcomes the presence of Lula da Silva on April 25, in Portugal, the day of the democratic conquest,” said André Ventura in a video sent by Chega to the newsrooms.
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In the video, the president of Chega confirms that the party “will even organize the largest demonstration against a foreign dignitary in Portugal”, mobilizing “Portuguese and Brazilians, all who want to join, to show that the center-right and the Portuguese right it is not the PSD, it is not this PSD”.
The president of Chega defended that Lula da Silva should be condemned for his “closeness to Russia”, for his “inability to see the suffering of the Ukrainian people”, for “his proximity to China”, for his “hesitation in condemning the South Americans”. dictatorships” and “corruption”, although the decisions that condemned the Brazilian president in this area were annulled due to procedural errors and irregularities.
The vice president of the PSD, Paulo Rangel, urged this Sunday the government to “take a public and formal position” distancing itself from the Brazilian president’s statements that the European Union, NATO and the US encourage the war in Ukraine.
While stressing the “fundamental importance” of Lula da Silva’s “timely and useful” visit to Portugal, in a few days, and ensuring that the PSD will do everything possible to make it a “success” and allow “relaunching with strength” the common ties between In both countries, Paulo Rangel considered that António Costa “has to take a public and formal position” against the “reiterated positions of the Brazilian State, through its highest magistrate”.
The leader of the Liberal Initiative, Rui Rocha, also defended that the Assembly of the Republic “cannot receive an ally of Putin like Lula on April 25”, recalling that the president of Ukraine spoke by videoconference in the same parliament.
The presence in parliament of the president of Brazil – who will visit Portugal between April 22 and 25 – has been shrouded in controversy since, in February, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, João Gomes Cravinho, made an explicit statement in a speech Lula da Silva in the act of session of the April Revolution in the Assembly of the Republic, marking its unprecedented character, which deserved the opposition of the PSD, IL and Chega.
Parliament ended up deciding that, instead of an intervention by the President of Brazil at the solemn annual commemorative session, it would hold, on the same day, a separate welcoming session during Lula da Silva’s state visit to Portugal.
The Brazilian president defended on Saturday, at the end of a visit to China, that “the United States should stop fomenting war” in Ukraine and “the European Union should start talking about peace.”
Source: Observadora
