With Bolsonaro without manners, Brazil is out of the G7 again

News Summary

• The Bolsonaro government was not invited by Germany to participate in the G7 summit

• The meeting will be attended by four invited countries in addition to the permanent members

• Brazil was not invited to participate in the event in 2019 or 2021; In 2020, the summit has not been held

Brazil has not been invited to participate in the G7 summit, which will take place in June. The German government announced on Monday (2) that it will invite four developing countries to participate in the meeting – and Brazil is not one of them.

According to information received from journalist Jamil Scheid, from Juul, the announcement was made by German government spokesman Stephen Hebestreet. Germany holds the presidency of the summit this year. The four countries selected to participate in the G7 summit are Senegal, South Africa, India and Indonesia.

This is not the first time that Brazil has been excluded from the meeting. Since the beginning of the government Jair Bolsonaro (PL)The state did not participate in the summit. In 2021 and 2019, Brazil did not receive an invitation to participate. The country has already been invited to the G7 summit several times and has not usually been left out of the event.

In 2019, French President Emmanuel Macron extended an invitation to developing countries. Chile, Egypt, South Africa, Senegal, India and Rwanda were invited. Already in 2021, the UK called India, South Korea and Australia. In 2020, the event will be chaired by the United States, and Brazil had hoped to be invited, because Donald Trump was president, but the summit did not take place.

The Group of Seven consists of the world’s major economies: the United States, Japan, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Canada.