Lula, 77 years old, will return to the presidency of Brazil after winning by 50.9% of the votes against 49.1% of the current president, Bolsonaro, 67, with 98.8% counted.
“I send my congratulations to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for his election to be the next president of Brazil after free, fair and credible elections”he points out.
“I hope that we work together to continue the cooperation between our two countries in the coming months and years,” he added shortly after the leftist leader defeated the far-right Jair Bolsonaro in the ballot by a very narrow margin.
During the last weeks, congressmen of the Democratic Party in power they asked Joe Biden to recognize the results of the elections in Brazil soon, for fear that Bolsonaro would question them if he lost.
The United States is one of the main trading partners of Brazil, the largest economy in Latin America and the thirteenth in the world by volume of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
However, Lula will not run into the economic boom of the 2000s despite the post-pandemic recovery. yesAccording to the International Monetary Fund, the Brazilian economy will grow 2.8% in 2022 and 1% in 2023.
The United States and Brazil have high-level bilateral talks on a range of topics including trade and investment, science, technology, and energy priorities.
“The relationship between the United States and Brazil is pragmatic and a matter of state, regardless of who is in power,” Valentina Sader, associate director of the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Center for Latin America in Washington, told AFP.
Sader expects Lula to put emphasis on the fight against climate change, an issue that coincides with Biden’s green agenda.
Source: Ambito
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