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BRASILIA – Nearly six weeks after Joe Biden’s victory in the US election was projected on November 7, President Jair Bolsonaro finally publicly acknowledged that the Democrat defeated his ally, President Donald Trump. Bolsonaro said this Tuesday in an interview with Band that he sent a message to Biden and that he asked the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ernesto Araújo, to make the official communication of the recognition of the Brazilian government to the democrat.
– A few minutes before going on the air, I already gave our minister Ernesto Araújo a start, to make this communication of ours, in the official government networks. Then on my private networks. I can send you here now, hanging up the phone, what was the message I sent to President Biden. For my part, and for his part, the American is pragmatic, we will work more and more together – he said.
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On Monday, the Electoral College confirmed the Democrat’s victory, but the majority of international leaders already congratulated him after the poll indicated that he would win the election. In addition to Bolsonaro, there were only Russian Vladimir Putin and Mexican Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who congratulated Biden today. Now, the only international expression leader who did not do so was North Korean Kim Jong-un.
In a social network, Bolsonaro sent a greeting to Biden and said that he is willing to work with the new government, continuing the “construction of a Brazil-United States alliance, in defense of sovereignty, democracy and freedom in the world, as well as in economic-commercial integration for the benefit of our peoples ”.
In a four-short-paragraph note, Itamaraty repeated the message posted on the social network by the president, adding that he sent Biden “best wishes and the hope that the United States continues to be ‘the land of the free and the home of the Braves'”. .
In the interview with Band, the Brazilian president praised Trump, who remains in office until January 20, when Biden takes office. The Republican, however, has yet to acknowledge Biden’s defeat, but he is increasingly isolated, as his main allies in Congress have already done today.
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– I hope that everything goes well with Biden, now, since the delegates recognized there that he was really elected. We will no longer discuss the question of whether or not there were peaceful elections. I can not say anything more. I waited for the recognition and here we made the statement, right now, to President Joe Biden – Bolsonaro commented.
On Monday, delegates from all 50 US states to the Electoral College confirmed Biden’s victory in the US presidential election. The lawsuit, which is generally a mere formality, drew attention this year due to lawsuits in which the Republican unsuccessfully challenged his defeat.
The Brazilian president and federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, his son, went so far as to publicly mention that there was fraud in the US presidential elections, supporting Trump’s false accusations, defeated in more than 50 trials, including in the Supreme Court. The president had also said that it was necessary to have “gunpowder” to counter Biden’s positions on burning and deforestation in the Amazon.
