Javier Milei, president-elect of Argentina, wants to leave the disagreements with his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in the past, whom he invited by letter to the inauguration ceremony in Buenos Aires, on December 10.
“I send you this message, bearer of my cordial greetings and in order to convey to you the invitation to accompany me, on December 10, in the events that will take place here on the occasion of my Assumption of the Presidential Command,” Milei wrote in a letter that his future chancellor, Diana Mondino, delivered this Sunday by hand to the Brazilian Foreign Minister, Mauro Vieira. Mondino flew to Brasilia for the match.
“Both nations have many challenges ahead of us and I am convinced that an economic, social and cultural change, based on the principles of freedom, will position us as competitive countries in which its citizens can develop their capabilities to the maximum and thus choose the future they want,” adds the ultra-liberal populist, winner of the Argentine elections a week ago with 55.6% of the votes.
Milei’s step is bold, after months in which he dedicated all kinds of disqualifications to Lula and the Brazilian government. Her having sent her future chancellor to Brasilia to try to start a new relationship speaks to the fact that the Argentine president-elect will bet on pragmatism instead of continuing with his idea that with “socialist and communist countries” there should be no government-to-government political relations. The same should be expected from the relationship with Spain, despite the fact that there have not yet been contacts with Pedro Sanchez.
On the night Milei won the Argentine Presidency, Eduardo Bolsonaroone of the sons of the former president Jair Bolsonarouploaded a drawing to social networks in which he saw his father, Milei and Donald Trump smiling. The president-elect of Argentina has strong affinities with the former US president and the former Brazilian president, and is well aware that Bolsonaro is nothing short of the devil for Lula.