Friday December 23, 2022 | 9:21 p.m.
Economy Minister Sergio Massa traveled to Brazil this Friday where he held meetings with the main names of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s economic team. The president-elect and his cabinet will take office on January 1st.
Specifically, Massa met with the future Vice President and Minister of Industry and Commerce, Geraldo Alckmin, and the new Minister of Economy, Fernando Haddad. The minister of the Frente de Todos returned to the country that day and was accompanied by Gustavo Martínez Pandiani and Marco Lavagna.
🇦🇷🇧🇷 I want to thank the Vice President and Minister of Industry and Commerce of Brazil as of January 1, @GeraldoAlckminthe opportunity to start working together on the bilateral trade agenda. pic.twitter.com/RuSZhsRu70
— Sergio Massa (@SergioMassa) December 23, 2022
“I want to thank the Vice President and Minister of Industry and Commerce of Brazil, Geraldo Alckmin, from January 1, for the opportunity to start working together on the bilateral trade agenda,” Massa wrote on his Twitter account and added: “With the main axes placed on gas as transition energy and the financing of foreign trade, which are common interests of Brazil and Argentina that we must work together “
In the same vein, he thanked Haddad for “opening the doors of his house to us to start working together for the future integration of Argentina and his country.” “From the work of exchanging currencies to the dream of a common currency, which are projects that must be part of the process of economic, financial, infrastructure and development integration of Mercosur and the region,” Massa completed.
Brazil’s president-elect announced a new group of future cabinet members on Thursday before taking office on January 1, including vice president-elect Geraldo Alckmin as minister of development, industry and trade. He also said economist Esther Dweck would head the newly created Ministry of Management, while pro-business deputy Alexandre Padilha was appointed Minister of Institutional Affairs.
