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The future chancellor of Uruguay will ask to know why Alberto Fernández doubts going to the assumption of Lacalle Pou

2020-02-15T17:41:54.311Z


Ernesto Talvi will arrive in the country at the invitation of Felipe Solá. The Uruguayan president's oath is March 1, the same day as the opening of ordinary sessions in Congress.


Natasha Niebieskikwiat

02/15/2020 - 14:25

  • Clarín.com
  • Politics

Uruguay's future Foreign Minister, Ernesto Talvi, confirmed that he will travel to Argentina on Tuesday and will ask Felipe Sola to know the reasons why President Alberto Fernández doubts going to the presidential assumption of Luis Lacalle Pou.

Invited by Solá, Talvi will arrive in the country amid confusion over statements by the Argentine president in which he suggested that he might not travel to Uruguay on March 1. The future oriental minister told Uruguayan media on Friday that during the trip to Buenos Aires - a day later he will go to Asunción in Paraguay - he will ask if Alberto Fernández will attend the Uruguayan ceremony.

Today we receive the invitation of Foreign Minister Felipe Solá to meet in Argentina. We value it and hope to complete the visit in the next few days @felipe_sola

- Ernesto Talvi (@ernesto_talvi) February 12, 2020

Solá's invitation was on Wednesday, while the confusion originated on Thursday when Alberto Fernández, in an interview on Radio Rivadavia, questioned his participation in the Uruguayan party. The president said that perhaps he could not cross the Río de la Plata because the act would be superimposed with his opening speech at the Congress sessions, which is in the morning. "I don't know if I will be able to go on March 1 because that day I have the opening of the ordinary sessions of the Congress," the President told Oscar "El Negro" González Oro during a relaxed radio interview.

"I have a lot of confidence that if I can't travel that day, I propose to see him the next day. We have to be able to match everyone. It would be unfortunately (sic) for me too because I would also love to accompany Lacalle," said the President.

Beyond those statements, Fernandez remained an expected guest in Montevideo for the assumption of Lacalle Pou on March 1. In the Casa Rosada they said that Alberto F. would go to Uruguay, although he is not official . In fact, oriental sources had planned for Alberto Fernández to fly to the Uruguayan capital after 13 March, on March 1, and even believe that he would have plenty of time because Lacalle Pou will receive foreign delegations at about 16.

On December 10 of last year, as the newly elected president of Uruguay, Lacalle Pou accompanied the still Uruguayan president, Tabaré Vázquez to the presidential jury of Alberto Fernández in the National Congress.

The president of Uruguay, Tabaré Vázquez and the president-elect of that country, Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou attended the jury of Alberto Fernández on December 10 at the Congress (Photo: REUTERS / Agustin Marcarian)

If the absence was completed, Fernandez could not meet with the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, who sent him a message through Foreign Minister Felipe Solá: meet alone for the first time in Montevideo in the middle of the celebrations of the new president in the region.

That meeting could be a great step to dispel the war of words between them, which had high points such as the lack of Bolsonaro to the assumption of Alberto, on December 10, or the unexpected grievance of a son of the Brazilian to the son of the Argentine.

The failure would be almost unpublished. The start of the sessions in the Argentine Congress coincide every five years with the presidential swearings in Uruguay, and even Cristina and Nestor Kirchner when they were in power were at the ceremonies of their colleagues.

But true to his style, Alberto F. also did not close the door to the trip: "If I can do it, I will try, and if I cannot do it, I will propose (to Lacalle Pou) the next day" to go to Montevideo.

It is claimed that Alberto F. has been a friend of the grandfather and father of the incoming president. A historical figure of the Uruguayan liberals and the other president.

In the Argentine government today they still could not explain why the president doubted his participation in the assumption of Lacalle Pou, who was not his favorite - he visited and was visited by the freteamplista candidate Daniel Martinez - but with whom he gave signs of respect.

Lacalle Pou is from the liberal line of flexibilization of Mercosur with Bolsonaro and Mario Abdo Benitez, from Paraguay. For March 1, Lacalle Pou invited the provisional President of Bolivia, Jeanine Añez. Argentina is the only country in the region that did not recognize it, and even gave refuge to Evo Morales.

Foreign Minister Felipe Solá left his meeting in Brasilia with Bolsonaro and Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo affirming that the Brazilian invited his colleague to that first meeting in person in a third country: March 1 in Uruguay. And in the Argentine government everyone took it for granted.

Something happened presumably after Bolsonaro's sayings on Thursday. Always direct, sometimes very controversial, the ultra-rightist said that his economic team was going to help Argentina in the negotiation with the IMF but did not talk about directly asking something of the essential Donald Trump. In addition, the president of Brazil criticized Pope Francis for receiving in Rome Lula da Silva and advocated an Argentine growth because among other things he does not want another "Bolivarian homeland" in the region.

On Mercosur, the future Foreign Minister Talvi said on Friday that he would talk with Araujo about the creation of special economic zones on all its borders with Brazil. And he added that they go forward with the free trade agreement between Mercosur and the European Union and that the one that does not, do not vote for it.

Source: clarin

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