2023-04-25 17:55:06
Known as the “Portuguese Bolsonaro”, the far-right leader launched attacks once morest Lula in parliament. Flávio Dino commented on the attacks: “Group that does not respect historical ties and friendship with Brazil. Here and there, they lost and will always lose. Long live the Carnation Revolution!”
On his first visit to Europe in his third term, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was received this Tuesday by the President of the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic, Augusto Santos Silva, and addressed the crowded Parliament. The Brazilian head of government addressed the Portuguese, in particular, and Europe in general, as well as the United Nations, when addressing the war in Ukraine. Lula’s speech was historic, because it coincides with the 25th of April, the date of the Carnation Revolution in 1974, which put an end to Salazar’s dictatorship.
The revolution “allowed Portugal to take a real leap into the future,” said Lula. The president was also the target of demonstrations by extremists outside and, in the Assembly, by a group of 11 parliamentarians from the far-right Chega party. The protest was answered with applause for Lula by members of the other groups. The Assembly is unicameral (there is no Senate) and has 280 parliamentarians. Even so, part of the Brazilian press highlighted the jeers of the nostalgic minority of Salazarism.
“The movement started by the Captains of April exactly 49 years ago regained civil liberties, political participation of citizens, political democratization, labor rights and free union organization.” According to Lula, the movement gave rise to “a vibrant parliamentary democracy”.
Far right protests
Lula’s position on the international stage and what the Brazilian head of state represents has provoked protests from parliamentarians led by deputy André Ventura, leader of the far-right Portuguese party Chega, also known as “Portuguese Bolsonaro”, for his practices that resemble those of the Brazilian .
The demonstration by the extremists, with small posters regarding “corruption”, was harshly reprimanded by the President of the House. “Deputies who want to remain in the room must behave with civility, courtesy and the education required of any representative of the Portuguese people. Enough of the insults, enough of degrading the institutions, enough of putting shame on the name of Portugal”, said Santos Silva.
According to him, Lula is “the political leader whose social policies contributed decisively to the reduction of poverty and inequalities in Brazil”. “In himself we recognize the statesman who stood up and won free elections and who, later, when some tried to invade and overthrow the Brazilian democratic institutions, knew how to defend them without any hesitation”, declared the president of the Assembly.
On social media, Minister Flávio Dino classified the far-right attacks as an act of ‘rudeness’. “Deplorable acts of rudeness today in Portugal, perpetrated once morest President Lula, by a group that does not respect the historical ties and friendship with Brazil. Here and there, they lost and will always lose. Long live the Carnation Revolution! All respect to the immense majority of the Portuguese people”, wrote the minister.
????WATCH: Deputies from the extreme right of Portugal booed President Lula in parliament and were scolded by the President of the Assembly:
“If you want to remain here, behave with the civility, courtesy and education that is required. HE ARRIVES!”
— CHOQUEI (@choquei) April 25, 2023
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