The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has insisted this Tuesday on the accusations against his counterpart from Chile, Gabriel Boric, and has questioned the referendum on the new Chilean Constitution, assuring that “it goes against what any Democratic country”.
During the electoral debate on Sunday, Bolsonaro charged against his main rival, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, equating him with other leftist leaders in Latin America and, in his review, accused Boric of burning the Chilean capital’s subway in the framework of the known as ‘social outbreak’ in 2019.
The Chilean government responded by summoning the Brazilian ambassador after considering that these types of statements are “unacceptable” and asking Bolsonaro not to refer to Chile for electoral purposes, regardless of the political differences with Boric.
Far from retracting, the Brazilian president insisted this Tuesday during an act in Brasilia that, “it was an exaggeration or not”, he did not say anything that was not true, according to ‘Folha de Sao Paulo’. And he has gone further, charging against the constituent process with which Chile wants to bury the Constitution inherited from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
“It’s his problem, but the citizen there (Boric) has the support of someone here in Brazil,” Bolsonaro said, referring to his main rival in the October elections, former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Source: Europa Press
