The Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights said this Thursday (28) that the Hungarian chancellor, Péter Szijjártó, wanted to “provide public support” to the administration of Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and that his offer of help for the re-election of the president did not occur in the sense of interfering “in the Brazilian electoral process”.
This Wednesday (27), the Sheet revealed that Szijjártó, in a meeting with Minister Cristiane Britto, in London, in early July, offered help for Bolsonaro’s re-election. According to the report of the meeting, recorded in an internal document by the minister herself, the minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the European country claimed to have requested the meeting because the countries share the same vision about the family.
“Secondly, due to the interest in knowing more about the electoral scene. He questioned whether there was anything the Hungarian government could do to help President Bolsonaro’s re-election,” she wrote.
Sought before the publication of the report, the Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights did not respond to questions made by the Sheet. This Thursday, the ministry released the note, in which it says that Cristiane “had a republican and cordial dialogue with the Hungarian minister Peter Szijjarto”.
“The interpretation of a message of support and sympathy between authorities delivered at a public and official meeting as an attempt to interfere in the Brazilian electoral process goes beyond all limits of reasonableness,” the statement said. “The minister and the entire entourage understood that the position of the Hungarian representative was a demonstration of appreciation, in the sense of providing public support to this administration, and never of interference from that country in the Brazilian electoral process.”
