Brazil’s socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will travel to Spain next week to give his support to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s campaign ahead of the upcoming November 29 snap elections, Spanish and Brazilian outlets reported.
\n\nThe support of the recently-reelected 81 year-old socialist President would come as several local polls project that the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) is poised to loose in the upcoming snap elections — which Sánchez called for in October.
\n\nThe unpopular Prime Minister, however, has claimed he and the PSOE are aiming for a successful “comeback” of the Spanish socialists, citing both Lula’s reelection and the results of the United States’ November 3 midterm elections as a rallying point for the nation’s left.
\n\nUnnamed Spanish government sources confirmed to the news agency EFE on Thursday that Lula is expected to land in Madrid on Monday, November 16, and will hold a bilateral encounter with Prime Minister Sánchez at the La Moncloa Palace on that day.
\n\nEFE, and several other Spanish and Brazilian outlets, detailed that Lula is also expected to give his support to Sánchez for the upcoming snap elections. Per the newspaper El Mundo, the electoral event could happen as early…
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