President of the Parliamentary Front of Agriculture (FPA), Pedro Lupion (-PR) states that the Lula Government (PT) needs to sit at the table with the to negotiate the president announced by the president, including criminal proceedings against the former president ().
“It is not a matter of serving it or not serving it [Trump]. I think there needs to be this negotiation. It cannot be [um assunto] simply ignored, “said the president of the ruralist bench in an interview with Sheet This Friday (11).
the US President says the trial against Bolsonaro is “an international misfortune.” “It’s a witch hunt that should be over immediately!” He wrote, announcing on Wednesday (9) the 50% surcharge for importation of Brazilian products.
The announcement, but Lupion avoids criticizing Bolsonaro for the surcharge. He says that the former president has already made “an important note on Twitter” about the “importance of pondering with the United States the economic reflexes for Brazil” and that it, due to the relationship with Trump, is able to evaluate the negative damage that the decision will cause to Brazil.
Bolsonaro’s note, however, does not talk about it. The former president says that surcharge is “direct result of Brazil’s departure from his historical commitments to freedom” and that powers need to act “urgently presenting measures to rescue institutional normality”.
For the president of the ruralist bench, the Lula administration is culprit for the surcharge by not maintaining good relations with the United States, such as seeking approach with the BRICS (group formed by India, China and Russia, among other countries) and discuss the creation of a common currency for the bloc countries.
“This difficulty of political relationship goes a lot through the series of acts and facts made by President Lula himself and the,” he criticizes.
He also believes in little effectiveness of the use of the reciprocity law to face Trump’s surcharges, a weapon that President Lula suggested to react the tariffs. This law was prepared with the leadership of the FPA itself to respond to the restrictions of the European market to Brazilian agricultural production. “It would be a drop of water in the ocean, I don’t think it would be effective,” he says.
Lupion argues that it is necessary to discuss the political issue as well, as placed in Trump’s letter, and compares Bolsonaro’s judgment in the (Supreme Court) for the alleged attempted coup at the US questioning about the entry of drugs on the Canada border – one of the arguments used by Trump to impose overwhelms on the Canadians.
“This more political motivation, more ideological compared to Brazil, needs to sit on the table and talk, understand?” Says the president of the ruralist bench in Congress.
Although it covers a negotiation around this topic, he says he sees few chances of an agreement in this field. “I do not believe there will be a political hit or an agreement between side to and side B about President Bolsonaro or in relation to the regulation of big techs,” he says.
In the parliamentarian’s opinion, the departure is Brazilian diplomacy to open a dialogue channel to show them in the lives of Americans. “These rates applied to will be extremely serious for US consumers,” he says.
Among agro products most affected by 50%surcharge, which will be more expensive for consumers in the United States, are coffee, orange juice, cellulose, ethanol, sugar and meat. The most effective means of convincing Trump to retreat is to show the impact of this not only on the economy of Brazil, but on the US market.
The FPA studies looking for the American Embassy in Brazil to present this data and even send a delegation to the United States to do these considerations. “There are problems there that they need to be aware and will generate a bigger problem for their market, such as coffee,” he says.
The deputy is favorable to the amnesty of Bolsonaro and the convicted of the scammers of January 8, 2023, but points out that this is a personal position, not from the parliamentary front. He states that Trump’s pressure in favor of forgiveness to the former president should not interfere with Congress discussions.
“There is no easy time to vote this. Now, it has to be debated. If we think there is vote, we have to guide,” he says.
He rules out that the US President’s collection in favor of Amnesty worsens the climate in the Brazilian Congress to approve the measure. “On the contrary. I think it would greatly improve the issue with the United States,” he says.
