Alberto Fernández will participate in the inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as president of Brazil, on January 1, 2023. The event constitutes one of the central points of the national government’s international agenda for next year. Although at one point it was stipulated that Fernández would travel to Brasilia on December 31, where he would receive the new year with his family, changes in the schedule of Lula’s inauguration ceremony modified the president’s plans.
Although the members of the delegation are still being defined, official sources told telam that the President could be accompanied by the chancellor santiago cafieroand it is not ruled out that the first lady will also travel Fabiola Yanez.
The Head of State and the entourage accompanying him will be received in Brasilia by the ambassador Daniel Scioliwho will put the headquarters of the Argentine embassy at the disposal of the presidential delegation. There is the possibility that the ex-president of Uruguay will also travel with Fernández, Jose Pepe Mujicawho at the invitation of the Argentine president could get on the plane that will take him to Brasilia.
“Lula’s arrival can help to reunite the continent, where globalization is in question and acquires another meaning. In the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) the presence of Brazil was missing,” the president declared days ago Argentine, in charge of the Pro Tempore Presidency (PPT) of that regional mechanism.
For this reason, Fernández’s attendance at the inauguration of the president-elect of Brazil marks for the Casa Rosada an important event in its foreign policy, not only because of the way in which it will gravitate in the strategic bilateral relationship with the
Argentina’s main trading partner, but also because of its importance for the future of regional integration.
It should be remembered that Argentina is Brazil’s third largest trading partner (behind China and the United States) and Mercosur’s main partner. This will be the second visit of the Argentine president to Brazil in less than two months, after the trip he made to Sao Paulo on October 31, after confirming Lula’s runoff victory against the far-right Jair Bolsonaro.
On the other hand, Brazil is part of the Brics, the geopolitical and economic block that it shares with Russia, India, China and South Africa, and to which Argentina seeks to join. For this reason, for Fernández “with Lula we will have an activist for Argentina to enter the Brics”, the coalition of nations that represents a third of the global economy, almost half of the planet’s population, and contributes 50% to the growth of the product gross of the world
