Brazil’s president has stated that, for the sake of democracy, the Democratic candidate’s win within the US election can be higher
Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has stated his private desire for an consequence within the US election is for Democratic candidate Kamala Harris to grow to be the following US president.
The endorsement from the chief of the BRICS member state comes simply days earlier than the election on Tuesday.
“I really like democracy. I feel it’s the finest system of presidency that society has ever constructed on the earth,” Lula wrote in a put up on X on Friday.
This method permits political opponents, “who’re antagonistic, to have a civilized debate of concepts, with out violence,” he added.
“I feel that if Kamala wins the election, it’s a lot safer to strengthen democracy within the US,” the Brazilian chief stated.
The put up adopted Lula’s interview with French broadcaster TF1 earlier within the day, throughout which he voiced an identical place, saying: “It could be good to have Kamala Harris in energy.”
The US was once a “mannequin of democracy,” he believes. However it all “collapsed” in 2021 after supporters of then-outgoing president Donald Trump overran the US Capitol on January 6 in an try to dam the certification of his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, as president, the Latin American chief stated.
“Now we’ve hatred being disseminated each single day, lies, not solely within the US but additionally in Europe, Latin America, and different international locations across the globe. It’s fascism and Nazism coming again with a distinct face,” Lula stated.
In July, he set out that ties between Brasilia and Washington can be “a civilized relationship between two vital international locations which have a centuries-old diplomatic relationship that we need to preserve” regardless of who wins the election.
The marketing campaign within the US was marked by two assassination makes an attempt on Donald Trump. In mid-July, the candidate was struck within the ear when a number of photographs have been fired as he addressed a rally in Pennsylvania. In September, the US Secret Service confronted a suspected gunman hiding in bushes at Trump’s golf course in West Palm Seashore, Florida.
“There’s numerous rhetoric occurring proper now… the Democrats, after they speak about ‘risk to democracy’ and all of this,” Trump stated again then, explaining the makes an attempt on his life. Talking in regards to the two suspects in these incidents, the 78-year-old acknowledged that “it appears that evidently each of those individuals have been radical lefts.”
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