The head of the Portuguese state, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, this Wednesday took part in the military-civilian parade on September 7 on the Esplanade dos Ministerios in Brasilia, right in the center of the podium, next to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. .
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa spent most of his time between Brazilian President and Vice President Hamilton Murão, while the other two heads of state present in Brazil, Umaro Sissoko Embalo, stayed a little further along with Jair’s wife. .
It was a solemn ceremony with an electoral atmosphere, in front of a crowd dressed in green and yellow, during which there were shouts of support for Bolsonaro and slogans against former Brazilian President Lula da Silva, his opponent in the presidential election. 2nd.
For some time, the place of the head of the Portuguese state on the podium was taken by the Brazilian businessman Luciano Hang, a supporter of Bolsonaro, who had access to the space of the parade itself, where he went to greet the crowd.
The civil-military parade in honor of Brazil’s 200-year-old independence from Portugal lasted about two hours. High-ranking Brazilian organizations such as the Presidents of the Federal Senate, the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Supreme Court were not present.
The Esplanada dos Ministérios was marched from military equipment to tractors, other agricultural equipment and fire engines. Military planes and helicopters crossed the skies of Brazil.
At the beginning of the ceremony, the national anthem of Brazil was played, and then the anthem of the independence of Brazil, the authorship of which is attributed to D. Pedro, in which “either remain a free homeland, or die for Brazil”, and the theme “My homeland is for Christ.”
After the parade, Bolsonaro moved to a sound machine elsewhere on the Esplanada dos Ministérios, from where he gave an election speech in which he claimed to have fought corruption and made Brazil a “prosperous economy”.
Claiming that it was God who gave him the vision to rule the country over the past four years, Bolsonaro said the election was at stake as a “struggle between good and evil.”
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa arrived in the Brazilian capital on Tuesday to attend the celebration of the 200th anniversary of Brazil’s independence at the invitation of Bolsonaro, with whom he had a bilateral meeting lasting about 20 minutes at the Itamaraty Palace.
Today, the President of Portugal will host a dinner for the representatives of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) present in the Brazilian capital, a meeting with the Portuguese community and a dinner hosted by Brazilian Federal Senate President Rodrigo Pacheco. .
This dinner should also be attended by the President of the Assembly of the Republic, Augusto Santos Silva, the second figure of the Portuguese State invited by the President of the Senate to celebrate the bicentenary of Brazil’s independence.
On Tuesday, after meeting with Bolsonaro in Itamaraty, the President of Portugal, together with Sissoko Embalo, visited the place where the heart of D. Pedro I of Brazil and IV of Portugal is exhibited, preserved in formaldehyde and stored in a glass capsule, which was specially brought from Porto.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa defended that “it would be incomprehensible if Portugal were not represented at the highest level” at Brazil’s 200th anniversary celebrations and dismissed the possibility of being associated with the Brazilian electoral campaign, arguing that “these are two completely different things.”
On Thursday, the official meeting of the National Congress will take place, at which Marcelo Rebelo de Souza will speak.
The program of the President of Portugal in Brazil ends with a reception for the Portuguese community at the Navio Escola Sagres in Rio de Janeiro on Friday.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
