Rio De Janiero:
Marriage ceremony photographs or a diplomatic go to? The obvious ”bromance” between French President Emmanuel Macron and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has set social media followers alight.
Throughout his three-day go to to Brazil, 46-year-old Macron was pictured smiling and warmly embracing Lula, 78, throughout a visit to the Amazonian rainforest.
Lots of the pictures have since circulated wildly amongst social media customers in Brazil alongside montages and witty feedback.
i see a brand new macron/lula household christmas card dropping pic.twitter.com/zzJjFPtUxC
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) March 27, 2024
One image displaying the leaders elevating their arms beneath a big tree has been edited to point out them holding crimson balloons within the form of a coronary heart.
One other portrays the pair hand in hand, smiling as they have a look at the horizon whereas floating in a ship alongside the Amazon River.
”They will marry within the Amazon and have their honeymoon in Paris,” joked one consumer on X, whereas others stated footage from the journey may make up a marriage album.
Macron’s heat relations with Lula mark a departure from the frosty ties between the French chief and Brazil’s former right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro, who led the nation from 2019 to 2022.
His journey, which is able to finish Thursday in Brasilia when he meets Lula on the presidential palace, noticed the 2 leaders announce a billion-dollar inexperienced funding plan for the Amazon.
France, the seventh-largest economic system on the planet, and Brazil, the ninth-largest, are thought of key gamers in a geopolitical scene marked by rivalry between China and the US.
Paris sees Brasilia as a bridge to massive rising economies whose voices Brazil is making an attempt to amplify by way of its presidency of the G20, and membership of the BRICS+ group.
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