07/27/2021 2:47 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 07/27/2021 2:48 PM
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro launched a new criticism of Alberto Fernández's government on Tuesday, pointing out that "
Argentines are already fleeing to Brazil
" due to the crisis that the country is going through and warned that this "occurs when the left returns to power." , in an attempt to target his maximum political rival Luis Inacio "Lula" da Silva.
"
Look what happens when the left returns to power
. In 2019 I anticipated it. The Argentines are already fleeing to Brazil. The Brazilians, where will they escape?" Bolsonaro said in a speech to followers at the presidential residence.
The president again mentioned an alleged movement of Argentines to leave for Brazil for the second time in a week, after citing accounts of alleged Argentines living on the coast of the state of São Paulo.
Jovem Pan
radio
broadcast a report about an Argentine who came by land from Bolivia to Brazil illegally.
The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, again criticized the policies of the Argentine government.
Photo: AFP
Bolsonaro thus tried to target Lula, who appears as a
favorite in polls
after his corruption convictions were overturned.
In this context, the Brazilian President said that Lula "is against the democratic vote" for not supporting him in the request to change the electoral system with an electronic ballot box that has been in force since 1996 and that allowed the election of the head of State and his three sons. .
"The same people who got Lula out of jail are going to count the votes and that is why they are against electronic voting controlled by the paper vote," said the president, who announced that on Thursday he will show cases of fraud from the 2014 election .
Bolsonaro also said that "for two years there has been no corruption in Brazil", although he admitted that he is "being accused" of this crime by the Federal Police "for a vaccine that was not bought."
Alberto Fernández, in the center, with the presidents of Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile and Bolivia.
Mercosur's commercial strategies are part of the conflict between the Argentine president and his Brazilian counterpart.
He also pointed out that he can walk around the country while Lula "cannot go out to have a drink at a bar because he is insulted and they say he has 49% of the intention to vote."
The comment came after the
Folha de Sao Paulo
newspaper
published that the Workers' Party recommended increasing Lula's security when he begins traveling the country to strengthen his eventual candidacy next year.
Tension on the rise
After the repeated crossovers around Mercosur's commercial strategies, the tension between the Alberto Fernández government and the Bolsonaro administration was on the rise.
Days ago, the Brazilian president had mentioned the arrival of Argentines in that country: "You don't need to have a crystal ball to say it.
Whoever makes the wrong choices is going to pay the price sooner or later
," Bolsonaro said in his weekly broadcast. live through social networks.
On that occasion, he related that, on a visit to Paraná, a Brazilian state on the border with Paraguay and Argentina, he met a young Argentine immigrant who began to cry when the president asked him about the situation in the neighboring country.
"Rivalry between Brazilians and Argentines only in soccer. We want prosperous, strong, free and democratic neighbors, but the choice between one candidate and another is for the Argentine people ...", he said.
And he added: "We force Argentina to straighten out, but it is not easy. It is a sign that the closure of everything (in the midst of the pandemic) did not work in Argentina, which has one of the highest death rates ( by covid) every 100,000 inhabitants ".
With information from Télam.
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