President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was invited this Monday to attend the United Nations Climate Change Summit (COP27), which will take place in Egypt in November. The offer was made by the Egyptian authorities, who hosted the event. Among diplomats, this gesture was seen as a clear message that the international community no longer wanted Jair Bolsonaro as a counterpart.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi congratulated Lula on his victory and said he wanted to cooperate with Brazil’s new president. However, he also announced that he invited the next-term president to COP27.
“I believe that Brazil can play a positive and constructive role during the summit to promote climate action internationally,” said the Egyptian president and hosting one of the main diplomatic events of the year.
If Lula agrees, the Brazilian will create significant embarrassment in relation to President Jair Bolsonaro. But behind the scenes, many remember that the current Brazilian president didn’t even go to the Climate Summit in 2021, when the event took place in Glasgow. He was one of the rare leaders who did not travel to Scotland at the time.
Members of Lula’s team also announced that the foreign agenda of the incoming president will be driven by the climate issue, including overcoming the credibility crisis the country is currently experiencing. The possibility of Brazil hosting an international conference on the subject has not been ruled out.
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. 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.
source: Noticias
