Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa continues to be unable to find a balance in family life. Having severed relations with his son, Nuno, because of the entire process that triggered the scandal surrounding the case of the Portuguese-Brazilian twins, who had access to the most expensive medicine in the world due to alleged “interference” by the President of the Republic, through of the son.
In the conversation during dinner with journalists from the foreign press, which was later made public by the audio of Correio Braziliense, the President confirmed that, because of this, he cut ties with his son, with whom he still does not exchange a word.
“This is unforgivable, because he knows that I have a public and political position, and I pay for it. There are worse things in life. I don’t know if he will be held responsible, I don’t care. That’s one of the advantages of cutting. He is 51 years old, if he were my oldest and favorite grandson, at 20 years old, I would feel co-responsible. But, at 51 years old, he is older and vaccinated”, he stated, revealing, however, that things with Nuno had been shaky for some time for other reasons which, The Mag found, had nothing to do with politics.
Nuno Rebelo de Sousa, the man who put his father, Marcelo, in trouble
In fact, there are those who say that it all started practically a decade ago, and that the President of the Republic was never able to forgive his son for separating from his first wife, Rita Sousa Coutinho, who was adored by Marcelo and is the mother of his oldest grandchildren. . As a consequence of the discovered betrayal and divorce, Rita would end up moving to China with her children, increasing Marcelo’s distance from his grandchildren, a pain that the Portuguese head of state never hid.
Consequently, there was also a greater distance from Nuno, who remade his life alongside Juliana Vilela Drummond, with whom she now has a nine-year-old daughter. The relationship with his new daughter-in-law was never, even remotely, as close to the one Marcelo had with Rita Sousa Coutinho, who he considers irreplaceable.
Nuno with his wife, Juliana
Especially because, from an early age, Marcelo was enchanted with his former daughter-in-law, and he was the one the great driver of their relationship, when, one summer, the two met on Gigi beach, in the Algarve. “Oh Rita, are you dating? Then end it, to marry my son”he would report in his biography, written by Vítor Matos.
With Marcelo’s hand or not, the two would end up getting married and the President of the Republic always had an inexhaustible pride in his daughter-in-law, who he considered to have “a head above average” and gave him his beloved grandchildren. The other side of the coin would be the separation of the family, at a time that marked the first separation from his son, with whom Marcelo has now cut ties.
THE VISIT TO LISBON… WITHOUT SEEING THE FATHER
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa broke up with his son at the end of last year and since then he has been hearing news about Nuno, but through third parties. In the controversial conversation with foreign journalists, later made public, the President of the Republic said that, after the fight, his son was visiting Lisbon, but that the two did not meet.“It was a boring period, having a child with whom you don’t have a relationship, and which will continue to be boring as long as necessary”he said at dinner, regretting, however, that this had created a new division in the family and that Nuno had been in Lisbon, before Christmas “with a cap and sunglasses” to go unnoticed.
Marcelo has another daughter, Sofia, but the truth is that, with Nuno’s departure, he feels increasingly isolated. With his grandchildren in China and a life increasingly distant from the one who was once considered his girlfriend, lawyer Rita Amaral Cabral, Marcelo, aged 75, lives a life of great solitude in Belém, dedicating himself to government functions to forget the personal troubles that have affected your life over the years