Sergiu Mișcoiu: Lula will be aiming to be a leader of the Global South

Malgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat and Vladimir Mitev hosted the Romanian political scientist Sergiu Mișcoiu in a Cross-border Talks episode on the victory of Lula at the Brazilian presidential elections. Mișcoiu observed that Lula will have to be a president that rules in the conditions of strong center and right-wing in the Brazilian parliament and therefore internally he will be leader that has to seek compromise and consensus. Right now a large part of the countries in Latin America are ruled by governments, which are center-left. But they are ruling in worse economic and political conditions than those during the first left-wing wave in the region some 20 years ago, believes Mișcoiu. He also thinks that there is a misunderstanding of the role and essence of Russia in international relations among the left-wing forces in Latin America, as it is confused with the role the Soviet Union was playing during the Cold War. Mișcoiu expects that Lula's Brazil will be following a course of non-alignment and neutrality with regards to the war in Ukraine and thus try to be a leader of the Global South. However, the Westerners will certainly try to convince the Latin American leaders that in the war in Ukraine Ukraine is a victim, "which is quite obvious", underlined Mișcoiu.