Former Brazilian president was received with all the honors at the Elysee by Emmanuel Macron, Wednesday, after visits to several capitals of the continent. One year of the presidential election in Brazil, the leader of the left arises as an alternative to Jair Bolsonaro.
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Like a chief of state in office. This is how Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, said “Lula”, was received Wednesday, November 17 by Emmanuel Macron. The charismatic leader of the Brazilian left was welcomed with all honors at the Elysee: the French president did not hesitate to convene for the occasion the republican guard and to descend the seven steps of the palace to warmly welcome his Brand guest.
Intended to last for thirty minutes, the interview between the two men was finally spread over more than an hour. The exchange, described by the Elysee as “warm” and “high level”, focused on all subjects: climate, Amazon, Latin America, Europe, globalization … “I knew that Lula would be well received. But I did not expect something so spectacular! Emmanuel Macron understood the importance of Brazil and Lula, “a member of the Brazilian team moved.
Everything seems to separate these two political faux, which met this Wednesday for the first time. What’s up, between the Old Brazilian Lion, 76-year-old, Left Leader, former Syndicalist Metallo became president from 2003 to 2011, and the young French Wolf 43, Liberal, ex-banker of business, Apostle of the “start-up nation”?
But while the year 2022 announces, the two men discovered common interests. “Lula and Macron will certainly be candidates next year to the presidential election in their respective countries and everyone should face a popular extreme right: Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, and Eric Zemmour or Marine Le Pen in France. ‘Set together, they show that they are engaged in the same fight for democracy, “says Hussein Kalout, Professor of International Relations at Harvard University.
Glacial Relations between Macron and Bolsonaro
For Emmanuel Macron, the meeting was also the perfect opportunity to balance his old accounts with Jair Bolsonaro. The French president never digested the mockery and insults launched against him (as well as that of his wife) during the serious diplomatic crisis of August 2019, surgregate on the background of fires in the Amazon. Mr. Macron then went so far as the “Brazilian people quickly had a president who behaves at the height” of his function.
Despite a recent meeting of the foreign ministers of the two countries, the relationship between Paris and Brasilia remains icy. The reception reserved for Lula has logically aroused the IRE of “Bolsonarists” of Brasilia. “The French population is mature and appreciates democracy. She will not feel represented by a president who meets a former convict [in court] and who still answers several prosecutions for corruption,” reacted the member Carla Zambelli, close to the chief of the Brazilian state and president of the Environment Commission in the lower house.
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