© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Donald Trump welcomes Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to the White Home in Washington, U.S., March 19, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photograph
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro mentioned in feedback printed on Friday that the warfare in Ukraine wouldn’t have occurred if former U.S. President Donald Trump had been nonetheless in workplace, however provided no clarification for a way his shut ally might have prevented the battle.
The feedback in an interview with information journal Veja might add to tensions with Washington as Bolsonaro seeks to overhaul leftist rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva forward of a Brazilian presidential runoff vote on Oct. 30,
Bolsonaro informed Veja that he had an excellent in-person assembly with U.S. President Joe Biden in June. However in remarks more likely to rile the White Home, he mentioned lots of the points presently bedeviling the world wouldn’t be occurring if Trump had been nonetheless president.
“Some suppose that the warfare in Ukraine wouldn’t have occurred if he had been nonetheless in energy,” Bolsonaro mentioned. “I agree with that.”
He didn’t give additional particulars.
Bolsonaro has lengthy admired Trump, a fellow right-wing populist, and noticed his worldwide standing diminish after the 2020 U.S. election. Bolsonaro was among the many final world leaders to acknowledge Biden’s victory, after repeating Trump’s false allegations of U.S. electoral fraud.
Trump endorsed Bolsonaro head of final Sunday’s first spherical of the presidential election, saying Bolsonaro was “one of many nice presidents of any nation on this planet … revered by all people all through the world.”
Regardless of his better-than-expected efficiency within the first spherical, Bolsonaro raised recent doubts within the interview in regards to the safety of Brazil’s voting system, with out proof, fanning fears that he might refuse to just accept defeat.
Within the interview with Veja, he saved up his unfounded questioning of Brazil’s digital voting system, declining to say he would settle for the consequence if he misplaced within the second spherical.
“There is a feeling in public opinion that there was one thing dodgy,” he mentioned. “I am all the time apprehensive.”
Within the wide-ranging interview, Bolsonaro additionally dedicated to extra privatizations if he’s re-elected and mentioned his common sparring companion, Supreme Court docket Justice Alexandre de Moraes, “has all of the signs of a dictator.”
He mentioned he might take a look at a proposal to extend the variety of Supreme Court docket justices after the election.
Bolsonaro pledged to hold out extra privatizations if he’s re-elected, though he didn’t say which state-owned corporations could be up on the market.
Originally published at Irvine News HQ
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