Brazil with Lula should make a turn in foreign policy, say live experts

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Brazil will take a turn in international politics with the change of the presidency from Jair Bolsonaro to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, after the PT’s victory in this Sunday’s elections (30). This is the conclusion of the debaters gathered by TV Folha live on this day of the second round.

According to columnist Denise Mota, Lula should move towards a “more modern line of the left, in the style of Gabriel Boric, for example”, and the country will reconnect with countries like Argentina, led by the leftist Alberto Fernández.

Relations with the European Union should also change abruptly, as stated by professor Amâncio de Oliveira, from USP’s Institute of International Relations.

Lisbon-based correspondent Giuliana Miranda says there is, for example, greater sympathy from French President Emmanuel Macron in negotiating with Lula, since “there were even personal disagreements with Bolsonaro, when he offended the French First Lady.”

Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was in Brazil seven times during Bolsonaro’s term, she recalled, and suffered a scolding from Bolsonaro when he was uninvited to a meeting in July.

Oliveira said it was unfair to say that Lula’s two previous terms had centered on South-South relations. “It was a very pragmatic government. It increased interaction with the South, but also with the North-South.”

With the Bolsonaro government, according to the professor, Brazil has not exactly become a pariah, but there has been a realignment to the right and a departure from partners such as the European Union. Miranda recalled that the country’s intentions to join the OECD were frustrated by the “dismantling of the environmental agenda” promoted by Bolsonaro, as well as the fight against corruption.

Mota also stated that the new Lula government must be different from the previous ones, for example, in having to listen and negotiate with minorities that ascended to the negotiating table in a more intense way than in the 2000s.

TV Folha carries out this Sunday, until 9:50 pm, a special live program about the 2022 elections. Journalists and columnists from Sheet will comment on the results of the polls, debate the economy and the image of Brazil abroad.

All videos will be broadcast on the channel of Sheet on YouTube (www.youtube.com/folha).

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