Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Hungarian ambassador to explain the situation with Bolsonaro

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The Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) summoned Hungary’s Ambassador to the country, Miklos Halmay, to explain the two-day stay at the Hungarian diplomatic mission of the country’s former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is under investigation. As the newspaper wrote Folha de Sao Paulo, This happened on Monday.

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs decided to summon the Hungarian Ambassador to Brazil, Miklos Halmay, to explain that former President Jair Bolsonaro was in the diplomatic mission of the European country, a few days after the federal police seized his passport,” the publication said. clarified.

The newspaper also writes that the meeting lasted twenty minutes. Brazil was represented by Maria Luisa Escorel de Morais, Secretary of European and North American Affairs of the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She halmay listened to the complaints but did not comment.

Brazil believes that this move is an intervention by a European country in the internal affairs of a Latin American state.

Jair Bolsonaro confirmed a report the other day to local publication Metropoles that he had been sheltering in the Hungarian Embassy in Brasilia for two days.

The scandal began with material from The New York Times, which reported that the former head of state was with the guards at the Hungarian diplomatic mission on February 12-14. A satellite image was later obtained showing that Bolsonaro’s car was located on the territory of the diplomatic mission.

A few days ago, Brazilian federal police confiscated the politician’s passport. This was linked to an investigation into an alleged coup plot that Bolsonaro tried to stage to stay in power after losing the 2022 election.

Former President of Costa Rica Reacted He is accused of influence peddling.

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