Planalto is irritated with Maduro and sees Venezuela’s ‘break of agreement’; Lula evaluates public response

Palace assistants demonstrated to the president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva deep irritation with the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduroafter the opponent Corina Yoris fails to register his candidacy in the local elections. The government’s assessment is that the Venezuelan leader broke the agreement with Brazil that he would promote a clean electoral dispute.

According to the Estadão Column, Lula considers a public criticism of Maduro, despite a potential strain on the relationship with his historical ally. The matter was discussed in the last few hours by the president, his advisor for International Affairs, Celso Amorimand the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mauro Vieira.

One of Lula’s interlocutors reminded the Estadão Column that the defense of the Venezuelan dictatorship played a role in the president’s loss of popularity, indicated in at least three polls. For this source, there is no longer any political or diplomatic space to relativize Maduro’s “abuses”.

In the early hours of the morning, the main opposition coalition in the neighboring country reported that the electoral authorities did not allow the registration of Corina Yoris’ candidacy, denying her access to the registration system. The deadline to do so was 11:59 pm on Monday the 25th.

Corina Yoris was chosen as the representative of the opposition to Maduro after the Venezuelan justice system, controlled by Chavismo, vetoed the participation in the dispute of María Corina, the country’s greatest anti-Bolivarian leader.

Lula has a history of relativizing the Venezuelan dictatorship. At the beginning of March, asked about the veto on María Corina’s participation in the electoral dispute, the president compared the episode to the ban imposed on him from being a candidate for President in 2018. “I was prevented from running in the 2018 elections. crying, I nominated another candidate and he contested the elections”, he stated at the time.

In 2018, Lula was arrested in Curitiba and prevented from running under the Clean Record Law. Without authorization to contest, he appointed the current Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad, as his representative at the polls. In 2012, the president’s convictions were annulled by the Federal Supreme Court (STF).