Lula da Silva spoke about the domestic accident he suffered: “It was serious”

The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvasaid this Monday that he domestic accident who suffered It was “serious” and that you still have to wait a few days to see how it evolves. Last night he confirmed that he will not attend theBRICS summit in Russiaalthough he will participate virtually.

“I’m fine, I had an accident, but it was my stupidity.; It was serious but it did not affect any delicate part,” the president said during a phone call with a politician from his Workers Party. Lula, who will turn 79 next Sunday, was admitted to the hospital on Saturday. Syrian-Lebanese Hospital of Brasilia “after a domestic accident, with a wound short-blunt in the occipital region”.

According to local media, on Saturday night Lula suffered a fall in the presidential residence bathroom in the capital and hit the back of the head. He had to receive stitches. On medical advice, he canceled the trip to Kazan on Sunday for the BRICS summit, although he will participate by videoconference in the meeting, which runs from Tuesday to Thursday, according to the presidency.

You must also maintain your work schedule: This Monday, the president published a photo on his networks with his advisor in international politics Celso Amorim and his Minister of Institutional Relations, Alexandre Padilha. “The president is very active, super well (…) quite calm,” he said Padilha to journalists after the meeting, in a “message of tranquility.”

Lula said he should wait a few days to know the effects of the accident. “I’m taking care of myself because anything in the head is very strong (…) The doctors said that I have to wait at least three or four days to know what damage the blow caused,” he said in statements to the mayoral candidate for the PT of Camaçari, in the state of Bahia, Luiz Carlos Caetanowho spread the content on their social networks.

New BRICS summit in Russia, but without Lula

Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira will head the Brazilian delegation in Kazan. The BRICS summit was going to be the first meeting between Lula and Putin in the Brazilian’s third term. In September, the two spoke by phone about a joint proposal by Brazil and China to end the war in Ukraine. On Tuesday they will talk by phone again, the Brazilian presidency announced.

Putin, subject of an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court over the deportation of Ukrainian children, of which kyiv accuses Moscow, he gave up going to the previous BRICS summit in South Africa. On Friday he announced that will not attend Rio de Janeiro to participate in the G20 presidential summit on November 18 and 19, so as not to “disturb” it.

The BRICS, whose original members were Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, are in full expansion, after including four more countries this year: Egypt, Iran, United Arab Emirates and Ethiopia.

During the meeting, the leaders of the member countries must define What will be the criteria for other nations to be part of the bloc as associates.