BRASILIA (Reuters) – President Jair Bolsonaro gave up going to Cartagena (Colombia) to participate in the Prosul Summit, the Forum for Progress and Development in South America, and decided to send Vice President Hamilton Mourão as a representative of the Brazilian government.
“The President of the Republic, Jair Bolsonaro, will not go to Cartagena for the III Prosul Summit. The Vice President of the Republic, Hamilton Mourão, will participate in the meeting”, confirmed the Itamaraty, in response to Reuters by email.
The Prosul summit is scheduled to take place on Thursday, the 27th. Last week, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry confirmed that Bolsonaro would go to the meeting in a press release.
The government did not give an official justification for the president’s withdrawal. A palace minister interviewed by Reuters credited the decision to the death of the president’s mother, which took place last week, and the holding of the 7th day mass, scheduled for Thursday, the same day as the summit.
Bolsonaro returned from Suriname on Friday and canceled a trip to Guyana to attend the funeral of Dona Olinda, who had been hospitalized on Wednesday, in Eldorado (SP).
The president returned to Brasília on Saturday and had a normal schedule on Monday morning, but canceled the afternoon appointments and suspended the entire official schedule until Wednesday. According to an assistant, to respect grief. However, it is dispatching normally at Palácio do Planalto.
(Reporting by Lisandra Paraguassu and Ricardo Brito)
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