The German ambassador believes that Brazil must explain its actions in favor of human rights and climate | Politics

Witschel made this statement at Plbadto Palace after meeting with interim President Hamilton Mourão.

Vice President of the Republic, Mourão took over the country because Bolsonaro is in Switzerland, where he will participate in the World Economic Forum.

"I think it is important that the government develop a public policy that explains the intentions, the reforms and the human rights, as well as the fight against climate change.We are optimistic, but we have things to do together, "said the ambbadador. .

During the election campaign, Bolsonaro first declared that he would withdraw Brazil from the Paris Climate Agreement when he was elected. Then he went back and said later that he would leave only if the agreement was not changed. The international treaty aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Also during the campaign, Bolsonaro stated that the criminal was not a "normal human being" and defended police officers who "killed 10, 15 or 20".

Witschel said the conversation with Mourão was about climate issues. He explained to the President-in-Office that the portfolio of cooperation between the two countries represented about 1.5 billion euros (about 6 billion rand). Some of the resources, he said, are reserved for the Amazon Fund, for example.

"Anxiety" in the German society

According to Georg Witschel, the reputation of Brazil abroad is worrying and it is necessary to work to improve the image of the country to the German society and other European countries.

"On the other hand, in the press, in some parts of the German society, we have a reputation of Brazil that could be false, so we also want to cooperate to improve this reputation," he said. .

"There are concerns in some parts of our society, with many media outlets, that what we want is to cooperate and measure the new government based on deeds, facts, not tweets, words spoken during the campaign, "he said.