Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will visit Argentina at a later date but before taking over the government on January 1, 2023.
Argentine president Alberto Fernández, who arrived here surprisingly a few hours after the PT leader defeated the head of state Jair Bolsonaro in the second round this Sunday in the second round, announced it in San Pablo, who was asking for re-election. The trip will be Lula’s first abroad after the electoral success.
The hasty arrival of the Argentine president, who tried to exploit the shock wave of that victory that had an impact on the world, forced to improvised organization here who controlled our embassy as far as he could. The two presidents held a bilateral meeting at the Intercontinental Hotel, where they had lunch.
After a couple of hours of waiting, Fernández spoke to a swarm of Argentine and foreign journalists in a hotel corridor. No questions allowed.
“Everyone knows my connection with Lula. The appreciation I can have for someone I have for him. So I didn’t want to be absent today knowing difficult times it happened to him, “said the Argentine president, referring to the period in which Lula was incarcerated on charges of passive corruption that the Supreme Court then deactivated.
Fernández had visited him in prison at the time and during the Argentine election campaign. A gesture that the Brazilian president-elect has always recognized. From there the warmth of the embrace with which the meeting between the two leaders began.
“I didn’t want to be absent today, which is the day of Lula’s revenge, the Brazilian people’s revenge on a wonderful leader,” said Fernández, who spoke to the press without the company of the elected president.
“Now we have talked more about the future than about the past, about need for integration of the region to consolidate democracy and continue to work together. He gave me the joy of telling me that the first visit he will make will be in Argentina, and he will do it before taking office, ”she continued.
The announcement of that visit resumes an ancient custom between the two countries that committed the newly arrived rulers to make their first state trip or before hiring their historic regional partner.
This is what Lula did in her two presidencies. The gesture now has more implications in the sense of recovering the damaged bilateral relationship in the management of Bolsonaro, a harsh critic of the Argentine Peronist governments for the economic crisis that is putting our country in a tight spot.
The issue of the Argentine calamities, however, was also taken into consideration by the PT, which during the electoral campaign avoided any kind of connection with Kirchnerism or other officials of our country.
He also behaved in the same way with Venezuelan, Nicaraguan and Cuban leaders. In the commercials, Lula was only shown with the leaders of the hierarchy of Angela Merkel, Pope Francis, Barack Obama or George Bush.
Fernandez’s was the first visit from a foreign president to the brand new Brazilian president-elect who had finished his typical speeches of thanks to his electorate in the early hours of Sunday to Monday, very late.
The rest of the world leaders preferred to make the corresponding greetings with telephone communications. The PT reported on Monday that Da Silva spoke to, among others, the presidents of France Emmanuel Macron and the United States, Joe Biden, with whom he had planned a new communication shortly.
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Source: Clarin
