Jair Bolsonaro has to take severe criticism not only because of his Corona policy. A friendly visit is just the right time. AfD vice-chairman Beatrix von Storch did him a favor and visited the president of Brazil.
For Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, things are not going that well right now. Once again, thousands took to the streets against the right-wing head of state and his government. During the protests, people called for impeachment proceedings, more vaccinations and economic aid in the pandemic, and an end to the privatization of public services. Most recently, in polls, 51 percent rejected the president’s policy. That was the worst result since Bolsonaro took office in 2019 – and yet he has a good laugh. Very well, if you believe the picture that was published of him and Beatrix von Storch.
Beatrix von Storch and her husband at Bolsonaro’s
The deputy AfD chairman was apparently received by President Bolsonaro as part of her trip to Brazil, during which her husband Sven von Storch was also present – a photo of the three with a broadly grinning head of state has now been published by their team. Your party wants to network more closely and stand up for Christian conservative values on an international level, she wrote.
In Brazil, a meeting between Storchs and the president’s son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, had previously sparked criticism. The leader of the Workers’ Party, Gleisi Helena Hoffmann, said the meeting “with a National Socialist German parliamentarian” was “pathetic”. The interlocutors have a lot in common: “Xenophobia, hate speech and anti-democratic attitudes.”
Further criticism came from the movement “Jews for Democracy” and from Brazil’s most important Holocaust museum. The Museo de Holocausto in the southern Brazilian city of Curitiba spoke of a burden “for building a collective memory of the Holocaust in Brazil and for our own democracy”.
AfD on the road in Brazil and Russia
According to her Bundestag office, the meeting with Bolsonaro the Elder took place on July 21 in his official seat. His son defended the meeting: “We are united by the ideals of defending the family, protecting borders and national culture,” it said. After meeting Storch, MP Bia Kicis wrote: “The world’s conservatives are uniting to defend Christian values and the family.”
Von Storch’s trip to Brazil is not the AfD’s first trip abroad. The stays of the AfD parliamentary group leader Alice Weidel and the meeting of party chairman Tino Chrupalla with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also caused a stir. In addition, some AfD politicians had traveled to Crimea, which was annexed by Russia.
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