The international press reported on the overturning of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s veto on the project. Foreign media highlighted that the vote was the government’s second defeat in the National Congress in 24 hours.
According to the British newspaper The Guardian, the project was approved by a “largely conservative” Congress. The text also highlights that the government’s defeats “are being widely interpreted in Brazil as further proof that Lula, who in the polls seems practically tied with Bolsonaro’s son, will face a difficult election”.
“Congress exposes Lula’s fragility by rejecting his nominee to the Court and reducing Bolsonaro’s sentence”, highlighted, in turn, the Argentine newspaper La Nación. “The opposition, led by figures from the Bolsonaro movement, interprets these results as proof that the government lacks governability and respect from the National Congress,” says the report.
The American newspaper The Washington Post published: “Brazilian Congress reduces 27-year prison sentence for Jair Bolsonaro, in defeat of Lula’”. The text recalls that the vote that overturned the presidential veto must be challenged in the Federal Supreme Court (STF) and that it could potentially “turn upside down” the elections in October.
According to the Spanish newspaper El País, the double defeat highlights “how much Lula’s already fragile relationship with Congress has deteriorated”. For the vehicle, the “comfortable margin” in the vote to overturn the veto “confirms the extremely precarious state of relations between the government and the Congress with a conservative majority, just a few months before the elections”.
