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Last Updated: March 29, 2024, 08:43 IST
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (L) and French President Emmanuel Macron hold hands as they hold a bilateral meeting while sailing in Guajara Bay off Belem, Para state, Brazil, on March 26, 2024. (AFP)
French President Macron’s cozy photos with Brazilian President Lula are sparking social media jokes comparing them to a wedding album
French President Emmanuel Macron joined social media users on Thursday in their jokes that compared his cozy photos with Brazilian President Lula to those from a wedding album.
Images of the pair smiling and embracing warmly during Macron’s three-day visit to Brazil were circulated online this week alongside lighthearted captions and montages suggesting a loving relationship between the leaders.
“Some have compared the photos of my visit to Brazil with those of a wedding,” Macron wrote on Thursday on X. “I tell them it was one. France loves Brazil and Brazil loves France,” he said.
Macron’s tweet was accompanied by a photo of himself and Lula smiling during the visit, overlaid with the backdrop of a poster for the 2016 romantic film “La La Land.” Lula responded to Macron’s tweet, which was also shared in Portuguese, with emojis of the Brazilian and French flags alongside two small love hearts.
One photo shared on social media this week showing the leaders raising their arms under a large tree in the Brazilian jungle was edited to show them holding red heart-shaped balloons.
“They’re going to get married in the Amazon and have their honeymoon in Paris,” joked one user on X, while others said photos from the trip could form a wedding album.
During Macron’s trip to Brazil, the two leaders announced a billion dollar green investment plan for the Amazon. Lula said the relationship between the two countries was one that created “a bridge between the global South and the developed world.”
Macron’s warm relationship with Lula marks a departure from the frosty relations between the French leader and Brazil’s right-wing ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, who led the country between 2019 and 2022.
