Few subjects in the world today juxtapose Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, Volodymir Zelensky and Vladimir Putin, or Nicolas Maduro and Justin Trudeau. However, the Brazilian elections seem to have achieved this success, with the right, centre, left, authoritarian or democratic leaders accepting the legitimacy of the polls.
After weeks of detailed coordination, Western democracies rushed to congratulate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on his victory via telegrams and messages on social media late Sunday night. The aim was to create a safety strip that would prevent Jair Bolsonaro from repeating Donald Trump’s strategy and questioning the fairness of the election.
It was to congratulate Lula and show that what Biden, Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz and many others have done is confident in the electoral process and the results of electronic voting machines. But there is a second message: they now accept that Lula has the legitimate power in Brazil.
International organizations such as the Organization of American States have also expressed themselves.
Bolsonaro’s isolation came to an end this Monday, when Brazil’s biggest non-Western allies, China and Russia, made it clear that they wanted broad partnerships with Lula.
In less than 24 hours, a kind of sanitary cordon was set up, as Lula’s advisers noted that the search for presidents elected by governments and international organizations exploded.
An example is the UN Climate Conference in Egypt in two weeks. UOL found that foreign delegations had sent extra negotiators to have the task of calling the Brazilian transit team to begin negotiating new deals.
The time to talk to Lula’s Brazil is already filling a broad agenda, according to diplomats.
There was still hope among Europeans that Bolsonaro would allow a transition team and even Lula to go to the G-20 summit in Indonesia in November. But in Itamaraty this possibility is seen as “impossible”.
But at the G-20, Brazilian diplomats already admit that if Bolsonaro goes, it will be difficult to hold any meetings for the defeated president. Especially if you maintain the stance of not recognizing defeat and initiating a transition.
The Brazilian will complete four years of becoming an international pariah and gain a new status: poisonous, undesirable and illegitimate.
source: Noticias
