The Brazilian President, Lula da Silva, travels to Spain to meet with Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, on the eve of the elections in the country, told Lusa official sources of the Palácio do Planalto.
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12/11/2026
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Lusa
O Brazilian President, Lula da Silva, travels to Spain to meet with Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on the eve of the elections in this European country, they told Lusa official sources of the Palácio do Planalto.
The leader of the Brazilian left will arrive in Madrid on Sunday and leaves Spain on Monday, after a meeting with Pedro Sánchez, his political ally in Europe and in the progressive field.
Sánchez, who is the leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), resigned, provoking early elections after the Spanish parliament rejected government decrees on the housing crisis.
The early general elections in Spain are scheduled for November 29th and Pedro Sanchez declared that he is inspired by Lula's re-election in Brazil to win the right in the country.
Defeated in the first round, on October 4, Lula da Silva won, 20 days later, his opponent Flavio Bolsonaro, in a victory that was marked by popular mobilization and digital mobilization of the so-called “Squila Army”.
One day after the victory of the Brazilian politician, Sánchez said: “Let’s do what Lula did in Brazil. The world is looking at us.”.
On the same occasion, he said that “hope will overcome the setback” and that “if Brazil could, Spain can”.
Before landing in Madrid, Lula took part in the COP31 climate summit in Antália, Turkey, from which he embarks today to Manila, Philippines, to participate, as a guest, at the 49th Summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).