On Friday, the Prime Minister said that Portuguese political leaders will be present at the World Cup in Qatar “to support the national team and not to violate human rights or discriminate against women.”

The position defended by Antonio Costa, in a joint press conference with the elected President of Brazil, Lula da Silva, in São Bento, after being questioned about the controversy between the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Souza, and the Prime Minister himself and the President of the Council of the Republic traveling to the State of Qatar to accompany The selection was led by Fernando Santos.

“The World Championship is where it is and is what it is. We all have a situation in Qatar, but what makes our choice in the competition is to be one of those who have managed to qualify, ”said Antonio Costa.

Then, the head of the executive branch separated politics from football, keeping the idea of ​​Marcelo Rebelo de Souza himself and Augusto Santos Silva, president of the Assembly of the Republic, watching Portugal’s matches in the Middle Eastern country.

“The World Cup is in Qatar and when we go there we will certainly not support the regime, the violation of human rights and discrimination against women. We will support the national team, the team of all Portuguese who wear our flag,” he said.

However, the CEO went further in defending this principle, related to “unconditional support” for Cristiano Ronaldo and his company. We support Qatar, France, India, China or Russia. We always support wherever the national team is. He stressed that we are always with our national team because it wears our flag.