Red Velvet
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« Reply #125 on: July 03, 2022, 10:10:42 PM » |
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« edited: July 03, 2022, 10:13:48 PM by Red Velvet »
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This shouldn’t come as a surprise though. Lula is way more popular than Bolsonaro in Europe. They love the hell out of him over there.
Lula had a tour early this year in Germany-Belgium-France-Spain and had a relevant agenda in all of them, making a speech in the European Parliament while in Belgium and having official meetings with Olaf Scholz, Emmanuel Macron and Pedro Sanchez. The reception in France was particularly good, where he was received with chief of staff honors even if he’s not currently occupying any government position or is elected for anything, almost like as if he was the actual president (wouldn’t doubt that Macron also enjoyed sending some shade to Bolsonaro considering their personal beef).
Meanwhile, Bolsonaro never got a meeting with any of those leaders. The only European leaders that are willing to be seen with him are Viktor Orban of Hungary (because it’s the same brand of politician) and Vladimir Putin of Russia (mostly because of strategic BRICS convenience, but also some allignment with Bolsonaro social conservatism).
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