President Alberto Fernández came out to repudiate the onslaught of followers of former President Jair Bolsonaro who invaded the Planalto Palace, the National Congress and the Supreme Federal Court (Supreme Court), in Brasilia this Sunday.
“Democracy is the only political system that guarantees freedom and obliges us to respect the popular verdict,” wrote the president through social networks.
In another passage of the message, he said: “We are together with the Brazilian people to defend democracy and do not allow #Never again the return of ghosts of the coup that the law promotes”.
as far as he could tell clarionthe President, Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero, and the Ambassador of Argentina in Brazil, Daniel Scioli, They are in permanent communication with their peers in the region.
Fernández argued in relation to the storming of government buildings in Brazil that “who tries ignore the will of the majoritythey threaten democracy and deserve not only the corresponding legal sanction, but also the outright rejection of the international community”.
The President expressed his “repudiation” of the situation taking place in the neighboring country and sent Lula Da Silvia his “unconditional support and that of the Argentine people” in the face of what he defined as a “Coup Attempt”.
On the other hand, in his role as chairman of the CELAC and Mercosur He said he had alerted member countries of the blocs “because we unite in this unacceptable anti-democratic reaction that seeks to impose itself in Brazil.”
“We demonstrate with firmness and unity our full support to the government democratically elected by the Brazilians led by President Lula Da Silva,” said the president.
Repudiation by Cabinet and opposition
Meanwhile, the head of government of Buenos Aires, Horacio Rodriguez Larreta, he also expressed his “deep concern” about what he called a “assault on the institutions of democracy in Brazil”.
“My absolute condemnation of the violent action and my total solidarity and support for Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and all the people of Brazil,” he wrote on Twitter.
For your part, Chancellor Santiago Cafiero he was among the first to send his solidarity to the new president of Brazil, who took office just a week ago.
“Faced with the coup d’état actions of the right in Brazil, we express our solidarity with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and We raise our voice in defense of democracy Brazilian,” the foreign minister said.
The Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa He considered that events like the ones taking place right now in Brazil “attack democracy and the popular will”.
“I strongly reject acts of violence and the assault on democratic institutions in Brazil. Acts such as these threaten democracy and the popular will,” the business letter’s header said.
In turn, he sent his “full support to Lula Da Silva and my solidarity with the Brazilian government and people.”
The Argentine ambassador in Brasilia, Daniel Sciolihe also expressed his repudiation of the “institutional violence taking place in Brasilia against the three powers”.
“I trust the experience of President Lula Da Silvla, who will restore the democratic order,” he said on Twitter.
Source: Clarin
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