Eduardo Bolsonaro, about US senators: ‘I work so they can not find dialogue’
Federal Deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP), the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL), said on Monday, 28, that the Senate entourage who traveled to the US to negotiate 50% overflow imposed on national products will not succeed in his contract and that he will hinder the process. “I work that they don’t find dialogue,” he said in an interview with SBT News.
Composed of eight senators from different parties, the delegation began on Monday its work in the US and met with private sector representatives in the country’s capital. The group also tries to meet with US government officials to delay or revert national products.
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Eduardo, however, said the group should not find any high -ranking representative of the White House and that the mission “is doomed to failure.”
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For the deputy, negotiations to avoid the rates cannot be only economical. “The problem is an institutional crisis, it is a problem within the judiciary, it is a political and not merely economic problem. If Brazil takes a first step to show that it is willing to solve this situation, Trump opens a negotiation table,” he said.
“They (delegation of senators), coming with this strictly commercial view of the thing (tariff) – when Trump has already made it clear in statements, post on social networks and even a letter that the problem is not strictly commercial but institutional – give hope to these authorities, especially the judiciary, that there is a middle ground,” said the deputy.
The deputy defends the use fees as a tool to press the National Congress to grant amnesty for those convicted of attempted coup d’état, including his father.
In the letter that communicated the tariff, US President Donald Trump said that “the way Brazil has dealt with former President Bolsonaro, a highly respected leader in the world, is an international misfortune” and called for the end of the trial investigating Bolsonaro’s participation in the coup plot. The former president’s son reportedly attended the meeting in which the tariff was debated.
For Eduardo, the Senate’s mission should “prolong the sacrifice of Brazilians” by not offering amnesty proposal. The deputy also said that the rates should not be postponed, since “Brazil has been inefficient to give the response” required by the president of the United States.
