The Argentine president, Alberto Fernandezaffirmed this Sunday that his brand new colleague Luiz Inacio “Lula” Da Silva he is “almost the Brazilian Perón”, and assured that the future of both countries “will be one of deep brotherhood”.
“Lula is a man of enormous experience, elected president for the third time; Lula is almost the Brazilian (former Argentine president Juan Domingo) Perón, Perón was the only one elected president three times” in the region, Fernández said in an interview with the channel from C5N news.
He added that the new head of state of Brazil has “enormous political stature, he understands very well the problems of the present and the care that must be taken in the future.”
I had greeted him before Twitter: “Congratulations President Lula! Latin America united and fought. The dream came true,” he said.
And he added: “I wish you the best for this management, the future will be one of deep brotherhood. With a more just, free and equitable look, we will achieve the true development of our peoples.”
Fernández accompanied his post with a photo with Lula, in which the Argentine president is seen making the initial “L” of his counterpart with two fingers of his right hand, while the Brazilian president raises the thumb of his left hand, a typical sign of “all good”.
Later, in the television interview, Fernández praised Lula’s speeches on the day of his inauguration and maintained that his colleague expressed himself “maintaining his commitments and also setting the limits.”
He highlighted Lula’s actions such as the demand for women in his cabinet and the promise to end the felling of the Amazon, which “is the great lung” of South America.
Fernández clarified that despite the ideological differences “in the years that (Jair) Bolsonaro governed I preserved the relationship between Argentina and Brazil, but now that link has to work better.”
“With the arrival of Lula it is easier to talk about integration; that is precisely the big difference: Lula is an integrator, he believes in the Great Homeland and that Brazil is part of the Latin American Great Homeland. Everything will be much easier. Tomorrow I’m going to talk to Lula more calmly,” during the bilateral meeting, he said.
He also ratified that the president of Brazil “will be in Argentina on the 23rd on an official visit”, within the framework of the Celac meeting, and “I want to agree with him how we can move forward and talk about all things, coordinating the agreements and concrete decisions.
Fernández highlighted the meetings he had with various leaders in Brazil, for example with the presidents “of Paraguay, Bolivia and Portugal and with the king of Spain.”
He revealed that with the president of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousawill seek to carry out “a state visit to Argentina”.
The Argentine president also highlighted the integration into the Lula government of other political spaces.
“Lula represents a space that is not only the PT, but people like (former president) Fernando Henrique Cardoso have been involved; today they are united, and in that electoral conglomerate is the search for what Lula called democracy,” he asserted. .
“This electoral conglomerate seeks to represent the institutionality in the Rule of Law that was violated by Bolsonaro,” Fernández added.
