Federico Mayol
05/09/2021 10:54 AM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 05/09/2021 10:58
(Lisbon-Special Envoy)
After eleven hours of a peaceful flight in which he alternated
rest with films
and conversations with some of his main collaborators,
Alberto Fernández
landed in Lisbon after noon this Sunday in what will be the first leg of the five-day tour in Los that he will visit four countries, will end with a
meeting alone with Pope Francis
and will seek to bring to Argentina the support of European leaders in his negotiations with the Monetary Fund.
"
We have the expectation of sowing a seed that will help us in the renegotiation of the debt,
" said a member of the presidential delegation as the Airbus 330 leased to Aerolineas Argentinas began to begin its descent at the international airport of the Portuguese capital.
For the head of state, the trip is also outlined as a
breath of fresh political air
in the face of
constant internal tensions in the government coalition
that have
Cristina Kirchner
as one of the main protagonists.
Like
Mauricio Macri
in his years as president, Fernández, they say in the delegation, feels good to leave the country.
Alberto Fernández upon arriving in Lisbon this Sunday.
He will meet with the president and the Portuguese prime minister.
Accompanied in the executive class by the first lady,
Fabiola Yáñez
;
the Minister of Economy,
Martín Guzmán
;
the Secretary General of the Presidency,
Julio Vitobello
;
Foreign Minister
Felipe Solá
;
the Secretary of Communication and Press,
Juan Pablo Biondi
, and the Secretary of Worship,
Guillermo Olivieri
, Fernández stayed at the Eurostars Museum hotel in Lisbon and will have, on Sunday afternoon, his first official activity: a welcome meeting with the president
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
.
Gustavo Béliz
, the Secretary for Strategic Affairs, will only
join the tour at the end of the tour
, in Rome: he has a direct link with Francisco.
The highlight of his visit to Portugal, however, will be before noon on Monday when he is received by the Prime Minister,
Antonio Costa
, a relevant leader, according to the official delegation, who
holds the temporary presidency of the European Union
.
They had already communicated virtually at the beginning of the year.
In fact, this capital, which received the Argentine delegation with a spring climate, was not on the final agenda of the trip, which
had been limited by the health situation
in Argentina and the local vicissitudes that Fernández faces. It was the Portuguese government, they say from the entourage, who insisted to go through Lisbon.
In this sense, as expected from his subsequent stops in Madrid, Paris and Rome, the head of state hopes to collect from Costa an
endorsement of the renegotiation of the US $ 44,000 million
that Mauricio Macri received as a loan from the IMF in 2017, and that now the Front of All must refinance.
The same negotiations run for the payment of just over US $ 2 billion that the Government must face with the Paris Club.
The meeting with
Emmanuel Macron
, scheduled for Wednesday, will be key in this regard.
Alberto Fernández and Francsico, during the meeting they held at the Vatican in January 2020. They will meet again now (Presidency)
Along these lines, the role of Guzmán - the
only senior official who traveled with a handful of advisers
, on a flight that also brought two dozen custodians, ceremonial and logistics employees to Europe - will be key during the stay of little more. 120 hours.
The minister arrived in Portugal with
serious internal questions
from the Kirchnerism partners of the government coalition, which had begun to appear towards the summer and which finished consolidating the previous week, when he tried to expel the now famous Undersecretary of Energy, Federico Basualdo, due to the rate increases of Edenor and Edesur customers in the City and, especially, in Greater Buenos Aires, the heart of the K vote.
Rome will have a special section
: in addition to the meeting with the Pope, the delegation awaited confirmation of the meeting that the President himself and the director of the Fund,
Georgieva Kristalina, could have
.
Until now, that space is reserved only for an activity in the Vatican with the Minister of Economy.
Before that, Fernández will meet with Macron, with the Italian president and prime minister,
Mario Draghi
- he presided over the European Central Bank and has interference in the international world of finance - and with
Pedro Sánchez
in Madrid.
The passage through Spain could have, in any case, more news.
