“I have a good policy with Trump, I hope he gets reelected,” Jair Bolsonaro said
BRASILIA:
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday refrained from commenting on the potential winner of the tight US election, but reiterated his support for President Donald Trump and suggested that Democratic challenger Joe Biden would interfere on issues such as the Amazon rainforest if elected.
“You know my position, it’s clear … I have a good policy with Trump, I hope he will be re-elected,” he told his supporters in Brasilia. “The Democratic candidate has spoken twice about the Amazon. Is that what you want for Brazil? Interference from outside?”
Bolsonaro, a far-right populist, took inspiration from the US president and is delighted to be called the “tropical Trump”. The US president hasn’t completely redesigned US-Brazilian relations as Brasilia had hoped, but he is a key ideological ally of Bolsonaro.
If Biden is declared the winner of the presidential election after all the votes are counted, he could put the environment and human rights at the top of the US-Brazil agenda, complicating relations and jeopardizing trade. .
The US presidential election hangs in the balance on Wednesday, with a handful of tight-knit states poised to decide the outcome in the hours or days to come, even as Trump falsely claimed victory and made unsubstantiated allegations of fraud electoral.
World leaders were in limbo as they waited for clarity of the results, with most avoiding uncertainty.
Bolsonaro had been advised by national aides to wait for official results before congratulating Trump on his victory, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.
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