The President () criticized on Monday (7) the statement to (). The petista reacted to and affirmed internal politics of Brazil.
Bolsonaro is a defendant in the Federal Supreme Court on charges of leading a coup plot at the end of 2022 to prevent President Lula’s inauguration. It is already ineligible by 2030 for abuse of power and has a history of nostalgia to the military dictatorship and attacks on democracy during its mandate.
Despite Lula’s criticism of Trump, the petista, however, has already talked about the internal policy of other countries. More recent cases were support for Trump’s opponent Joe Biden in the last US elections.
See times when President Lula spoke about internal affairs in other countries.
Said he expected Biden’s victory
In February 2024, the President. Biden was a competitor of Donald Trump, a politician that the Bolsonaro family often quotes as a reference.
“I hope Biden wins the elections. I hope the people can vote for someone who has more affinity. Biden’s speech from the beginning to now is in defense of the world of work,” Lula said at the time.
Trump has been politically coupled with the Bolsonaro family. Currently, Eduardo Bolsonaro, one of the former president, is a federal deputy licensed to plan a offensive to Minister Alexandre de Moraes, a rapporteur in the process that investigates the 2022 coup plot in the STF.
Defense of Venezuela
Lula has already made one, seen with suspicion by international observers.
In 2023, the petista stated that there was a “narrative of antidemocracy, authoritarianism” by the opponents of Nicolás Maduro, who rules the country, and that it was up to the regime to “show its narrative.” He also said, at another time when he was asked about Caracas, that the concept of democracy was relative.
In another demonstration, now in 2024, Lula said he was “prevented from running in the 2018 elections and, instead of crying, I indicated another candidate who disputed the elections”, talking about the opposition of the Venezuelan government.
Nicolás Maduro took over the presidency in Venezuela in 2013 after the death of Hugo Chavez, who was deputy. Since then it has been reelected in voting seen with suspicion by the international community and has hardened state control and repression against opponents.
Lula did not even make a direct mention, but the PT and government members supported peronist Sergio Massa in the last Argentine elections. At the time of the election, the first lady Rosângela da Silva, the Janja, implicitly supported the peronist candidate.
She in which the characters Monica and Mafalda – created, respectively, by Brazilian Maurício de Sousa and Argentine cartoonist Quino – are embraced. In the comic, the protagonist of the Monica Gang brought a message of comfort and hope.
In the caption that accompanied the comic, Janja wrote “What a mass this hug!”
Already a group of advertisers linked to the also used, that year, of the experience with the victory of NAS 2022 to reinforce the team of Contra, current president of the country.
The latest episode with Argentina was in July this year, when Lula visited his ally, which meets house arrest in an apartment located in the Constación neighborhood, and posed for a photo holding a poster that calls for freedom to the former president of Argentina.
