The Planalto Palace failed to convene President Jair Bolsonaro’s meeting last month with ambassadors to strategic G20 and UN Security Council countries. At the July meeting, Bolsonaro used a slideshow to repeat the never-confirmed thesis that there had been electronic voting machine fraud in 2014 and 2018. Stadium on the basis of the law on access to information, confirms the absence of criteria: seven of the 19 countries of the G20, the group of the main economies of the world, were not called.

Two of the five permanent members of the United Nations (UN) Security Council were also removed. Of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, China and the United Kingdom were not summoned – France, the United States and Russia were present. as shown by Stadiumsome of the main foreign representations have not even been summoned.

At the time, diplomatic sources said generically that the criterion for choosing the countries invited was “common sense”. However, relevant countries with a close relationship with Brazil were not called. Of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, China and the United Kingdom were not summoned – France, the United States and Russia were present. At the time, Bolsonaro’s presentation was not considered convincing by the ambassadors present. The representation of the United States, for example, published a note affirming that the elections in Brazil are a “model” for the other countries.

In total, representatives from 72 countries participated in the event. Among the G20 countries, which include the 19 largest economies in the world plus the European Union, seven did not participate: Argentina, Australia, China, South Korea, Japan, Mexico and the UK. In all, there are 55 ambassadors and 14 other charges d’affaires (the diplomat in charge of the embassy when there is no ambassador present).

For historian Filipe Figueiredo, the list is “difficult to decipher” in its criteria. “At times, the list seems to follow an ideological divide. From our neighbors in South America, for example, we have three exclusions: Bolivia, Argentina and Chile. Chile, especially with the recent election of the president ( Gabriel) Boric. However, at the same time, Venezuela and Peru have been invited, which are probably the two most left-wing countries on the continent,” says Figueiredo, international politics columnist and creator of the Xadrez Verbal podcast.

“It is also not possible to say that the major powers were the criterion. When we look at the G7, which is the group of countries with the oldest industrialization, two of them have been left out: Japan and the UK,” observes Figueiredo. . “So it’s a complicated list to analyze, because it doesn’t follow any objective criteria. It didn’t bring together all the powers, just a few; not all the major economies or all our neighbours. Not all BRICS countries plus . . . there’s a big presence of nations that aren’t exactly heavyweights on the international stage,” he says.

The list of gifts was obtained by the Stadium by the Access to Information Act. In addition to the ambassadors, the ministers Ciro Nogueira (Casa Civil); Paulo Sérgio Nogueira de Oliveira (Defence); Carlos França (Foreign Affairs); Wagner Rosario (CGU); Luiz Eduardo Ramos (Secretary of the Government); Célio Faria (Government Secretariat); Augusto Heleno (Office of Institutional Security) and Bruno Bianco (Advocate General of the Union).

On the occasion, Bolsonaro hinted that the meeting with the ambassadors is a “response” to the president of the TSE, minister Edson Fachin. A few days earlier, the Electoral Tribunal held a meeting with embassy officials to demonstrate how Brazil’s electronic voting machines work. “To clarify something that Fachin did not… take into account. The President of the Republic is responsible for dealing with foreign policy, in accordance with the Constitution,” he said.

SEE THE COMPLETE LIST OF AMBASSADORS:

– Abdoulaye Idrissa Wagne, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania

– Absulla Adnan Abdulaziz, Charge d’Affaires of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Bahrain

– Ahmed Hussain Dayo, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan

– Ahmed Ibrahim Abdulla Alabdulla, Ambassador of the State of Qatar

– Alexey Kazimirovitch Labetskiy, Ambassador of the Russian Federation

– Aminata Sana Congo, Ambassador of the Republic of Burkina Faso

– Ana Beatriz, Chargé d’Affaires of the Ambassador of the European Union

– Anders Wolter, Chargé d’Affaires at the Embassy of the Kingdom of Sweden

– Angeladebie Roshni Annie Ramkisoen, Ambassador of the Republic of Suriname

– Arturo Romeo Duarte Ortiz, Ambassador of the Republic of Guatemala

– Bassam Bdulraziq Binahamad, Chargé d’Affaires of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

– Bojidara Nikolova Sartchadjieva, Ambassador of the Republic of Bulgaria

– Brigitte Collet, Ambassador of the French Republic

– Carlos Alberto Velástegui Calero, Ambassador of the Republic of Ecuador

– Charles Schmit, Deputy Head of Mission of the Embassy of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

– Daniel Zohar Zonshine, Ambassador of the State of Israel

– Darío Alonso Montoya Mejía, Ambassador of the Republic of Colombia

– Diamouténé Alassane Zié, Ambassador of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire

– Douglas A. Koneff, Chargé d’Affaires at the Embassy of the United States of America

– Edi Yusup, Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia

– Eleni Papagianni, Chargé d’Affaires of the Ambassador of the Hellenic Republic

– Faris Al-Adwan, Charge d’Affaires of the Embassy of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

– Fernando García Casas, Ambassador of Spain

– Florêncio Mariano da Conceição de Almeida, Ambassador of the Republic of Angola

– Francesco Azzarello, Ambassador of the Italian Republic

– Gamiliel Sepúlveda João Munguambe, Ambassador of the Republic of Mozambique

– Gerard Greene, Ambassador of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

– Giambattista Diquattro, Apostolic Nuncio to the Holy See

– Guillermo Valles, Ambassador of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay

– Hossein Gharib, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran

– Ibrahim Altourah, Charge d’Affaires of the Embassy of the State of Kuwait

– Ibrahim Mohamed Khalil Alzeben, Ambassador of the State of Palestine

– Jacques Michel Moudoute-Bell, Ambassador of the Gabonese Republic

– Jakub Tadeus Skiba, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland

– Jennifer May, Canadian Ambassador

– John Aquilina, Ambassador of the Republic of Malta

– Jorge Alberto Milla Reyes, Ambassador of the Republic of Honduras

– José Pedro Máximo Cantor D’Oliveira, Ambassador of the Republic of Cape Verde

– Jouko Johannes Leinonen, Ambassador of the Republic of Finland

– Juan Ángel Delgadillo, Ambassador of the Republic of Paraguay

– Karim Hegazy, Minister Counsellor, Charge d’Affaires of the Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt

– Lorena del Carmen Martinez, Ambassador of the Republic of Nicaragua

– Luís Filipe Melo and Faro Ramos, Ambassador of the Portuguese Republic

– M’Bala Alfredo Fernandes, Ambassador of the Republic of Guinea Bissau

– Marc Bogdahn, Minister, Chargé d’Affaires, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany

– María Teresa Belandria Expósito, Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

– Martin Agbor Mbeng, Ambassador of the Republic of Cameroon

– Milan Zachar, Ambassador of the Slovak Republic

– Muhammad Makarfi Ahmed, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

– Murat Yavuz Ates, Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey

– Nabil Adghoghi, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco

– Nicolai Prytz, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Denmark

– Norman Lizano Ortiz, Ambassador of the Republic of Costa Rica

– Olímpio Maria Alves Gomes Miranda Branco, Ambassador of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste

– Patrick Hermann, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium

– Pietro Lazzeri, Ambassador of the Swiss Confederation

– Rachel Coupaud, Embassy of the Republic of Haiti

– Rachid Bladehane, Ambassador of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria

– Rafeya Bushenain, Chargé d’Affaires at the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates

– Ranko Vilovic, Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia

– Remon Boef, Charge d’Affaires of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

– Rómulo Fernando Acurio Traverso, Ambassador of the Republic of Peru

– Seán Hoy, Ambassador of the Republic of Ireland

– Stefan Scholz, Ambassador of the Republic of Austria

– Stein Rosenberg, Charge d’Affaires of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Norway

– Suresh K. Reddy, Ambassador of the Republic of India

– Tanja Maslac, Charge d’Affaires of the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia

– Tonika Maria Sealy Thompson, Ambassador of Barbados

– Victor Manuel Lagos Pizzati, Ambassador of the Republic of El Salvador

– Vitaliy Shatskov, Minister-Counsellor, Chargé d’Affaires, Embassy of Kazakhstan

– Wellington Vusumuzi Mavimbela, Ambassador of the Republic of South Africa

– Zoltán Szentgyörgyi, Ambassador of Hungary