Former President Lula’s interview with the foreign press was echoed throughout Monday and Tuesday, with attention to different aspects.
Spain’s El País (above) and China’s Xinhua noted that he “promises great public works plan” if he wins. “The State needs to be the inducer of this investment to motivate the private initiative with credibility and predictability”, he said, in the report of the agency.
Also paying attention to the economy and giving Lula as a “reference for the regional left”, the Argentine news agency Télam stated that he “wants the European Union-Mercosur agreement to respect the industrialization of Brazil and Argentina”.
The German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (above) highlighted that “Lula wants to lead the fight against climate change”, with attention to the promise “We will end illegal mining and fight deforestation seriously”.
In English The Guardian, “Lula promises to face crime in the Amazon if he returns to power”, having spoken of “repressing illegal miners and loggers after the murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira”.
The Russian agency Ria Novosti dispatched that “Brazil will try to restore peace between Russia and Ukraine, says Lula”, having suggested that “to end conflicts it is necessary to strengthen the UN”, citing the reform of the Security Council.
Bloomberg and Reuters called for “Lula calls for free elections and alternation of power in Venezuela.”
COUP OR NOT COUP?
With extensive reporting listening to “more than 35 judges, generals, diplomats and government officials”, the New York Times asked, in the statement: “The question that threatens the elections in Brazil: Coup or not to coup?”. More specifically, opening the text: “With only six weeks until the election, will Bolsonaro accept the result?”.
He doesn’t venture an answer, noting that, among respondents, “there was broad disagreement” about the threats being motivated “by a genuine concern about fraud or just a fear of losing.”
OUTSTANDING
The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times ran to report that the “Police are searching for pro-Bolsonaro businessmen who talk about keeping him in power”. At the beginning of both accounts, “prominent businessmen”.
