Biden congratulates Lula on his victory in “free and reliable” elections

the president of USAJoe Biden, congratulated Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Sunday night for his victory in the presidential elections in Brazil, which have been, he said, “free, fair and reliable.”

“I send my congratulations to Luis Inácio Lula da Silva on his election to be the next president of Brazil in these free, fair and reliable elections. I look forward to working together to continue the two countries’ cooperation in the coming months and years,” Biden said in a message released by the White House.

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With this statement issued shortly after Lula’s victory was announced, the United States wanted to legitimize the result of the Brazilian elections where the candidate of the Workers’ Party and former Brazilian president defeated the current president, Jair Bolsonaro, by a narrow margin.

Already last Friday, the United States said that it was confident that this second round would be reliable and transparent despite the doubts that Bolsonaro could sow about the process.

State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a telephone press conference on Friday that the first round on October 2 “was carried out with reliability and transparency,” and assured that the United States and the rest of the world “have all the confidence that the second lap will be conducted in the same way”.

“We support the right of the Brazilian people to elect their next leader and we trust the ability of the authorities to conduct the second round with the same professionalism, in a peaceful manner and with civic duty,” Price said at the time.

Source: Elcomercio

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