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(CNN Spanish) - On December 10 Alberto Fernández will take office as president of Argentina, after winning the presidential elections with more than 48% of the votes. At his side, again in the Government, will be former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, this time as vice president.
Argentina will again be led by a socialist government, after four years of Mauricio Macri's center-right government.
Several presidents of the region will attend the oath of Fernandez, including the president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, who announced that he will travel on December 10 to Buenos Aires to participate in the act of possession of Fernández. This is Piñera's first visit abroad since the October social outbreak in Chile.
The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, will also be in Buenos Aires, who arrived on Sunday in the Argentine capital and the chancellor of Cuba Bruno Rodríguez, among others, according to the state newspaper Granma.
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Uruguay will travel not only the outgoing President Tabaré Vásquez, but also confirmed the attendance of President-elect Luis Lacalle Pou, who on December 4 said he received a call from Alberto Fernández and invited him to the act of possession: “It seems to me that before the The world is a good sign that an outgoing president and an elected president go together to the assumption of such an important president of a president as important to our region as Argentina, ”said Lacalle Pou right-wing center to journalists in Montenivdeo.
The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, said in November that he would not attend the inauguration of the president-elect of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, because he considered that Argentina "chose badly", referring to the election of the Peronist president. Instead of Bolsonaro will be Ambassador Sérgio Danese who will represent Brazil in the taking of oath of Fernandez, reported the State News Agency, Agencia Brasil. Trade relations between Argentina and Brazil will continue “in the same way, without any problem,” said Bolsonaro cited by the local media.
For the US government, Alex Azar, secretary of Health and Human Services, will chair the delegation, the White House announced on December 6. The US ambassador will also be there. in Argentina, Edward C. Prado, and Mauricio Claver-Carone, director of affairs for the Western Hemisphere of the National Security Council, among others.
Pope Francis ordered the apostolic nuncio in Uruguay, the German bishop Martín Krebs, as representative of the Vatican in the inauguration of Fernández on Tuesday, the Argentine state news agency Télam reported. Krebs will arrive this Monday to Buenos Aires from Montevideo. The Argentine nunciature is vacant since the death of Congolese Leon Kalenga in June 2019, according to Télam.
