Although the ruling party does not have a majority in the chambers of the Congress, The impeachment request is unlikely to succeed. The President has already gone through other attempts to “impeachment” since he took office in 2023.
The opposition initiative argues that Lula carried out an “act of hostility against a foreign nation“, alluding to a possible risk of compromising Brazil’s neutrality. “This request is not bravado against Lula…it is an action in defense of national security,” said Zambelli.
In that sense, he noted, also in his X account that “Lula was execrated, swallowed, beaten by the Minister of Institutional Relations of Israel“. “I am ashamed to have a president of this level representing our country,” said the PL leader.
In addition to the request for impeachment, they presented a repudiation against the presidentSigned by 53 deputies and led by the deputy Júlia Zanattaalso from the PL.
“Unacceptable” and “false”: controversy grows after Lula da Silva’s statements
The diplomatic dispute between Brazil and Israel continues to escalate after the minister of Brazilian Foreign Relations described it as “unacceptable” and “false” Israeli response to president’s comments Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva over the Gaza Strip.
After Lula on Sunday compared Israel’s war on Gaza to Hitler’s treatment of Jews, Israel said Monday that Lula is not welcome in the Middle Eastern country until he retracts his comments.
After these sayings, the minister of Brazilian Foreign Affairs, Mauro Vieira, responded to Israel. “For a chancellery to address a head of state of a friendly country in that way, It is something unusual and disgusting“Vieira told Reuters and another news agency at the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro.
“It is a shameful page in the history of Israel’s diplomacy,” Vieira said, adding that Israel is trying to create a smokescreen to hide what is happening in Gaza.
For her part, the first lady, Rosângela da Silva, went out to calm the waters. “Speech He was referring to the genocidal government and not the Jewish people. Let’s be honest in our analyses,” the first lady published on her X account.
The presentation of the impeachment request adds a layer of political tension in a moment already charged by the international ramifications of his comments.
Source: Ambito
