Hungarian Chancellor Péter Szijjártó offered help President Jair Bolsonaro’s reelection (PL) during a meeting with the Minister of Women, Family and Human Rights, Cristiane Britto. The meeting took place in London in early July, and the Hungarian offer was reported by Cristiane herself in an internal travel report obtained by Folha. The two authorities were in the UK to attend the International Ministerial Conference on Freedom of Religion or Belief.
According to the document, at the beginning of the conversation, the minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the European country stated that he had requested the bilateral meeting because, in the first place, the two countries share the same vision of the family. "Secondly, due to the interest in knowing more about the electoral scenario, he questioned whether there was anything the Hungarian government could do to help President Bolsonaro's re-election," Cristiane writes in the report on the meeting with Szijjártó.
Sought after, the ministry headed by Cristiane, Itamaraty and the Hungarian embassy in Brazil did not respond to inquiries made by Folha. To the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Folha asked if any diplomats attended the meeting and if the professional reported to superiors the attempt to interfere in the Brazilian political-electoral process proposed by Szijjártó. There was no response.
Translated by Kiratiana Freelon