The former President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, announced this Monday that on December 10 he will attend the inauguration of the elected President of Argentina, the radical and self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalist Javier Miley, who this Sunday won the presidential elections in that country by a very large margin. .importantly, no polling institution could predict. Bolsonaro added that his presence at the ceremony was only possible because current Brazilian President Lula da Silva “doesn’t have to go” and, he added, it brightens the atmosphere.
“He (Javier Miley) invited me. I have already spoken to Michelle (former first lady Michelle Bolsonaro) and she will come with me. If Lula goes to the ceremony, it will be difficult. But since Lula won’t go, he shouldn’t go, everything will become easier,” Bolsonaro said this Monday.
The former president also said that he spoke with Miley via video link and that the dialogue was very positive. According to Bolsonaro, Milea’s victory in Argentina gives new hope to the far right in Latin America, and he hopes the same will happen in 2026 in Brazil, the next presidential election, in which, however, he is barred from running because that they were declared invalid. are not eligible to be elected by electoral courts until 2030.
The allusion to Lula da Silva’s absence from the inauguration of the new president of Brazil’s neighboring country reflects the Brazilian government’s undisguised dissatisfaction with the results of the elections in Argentina. Lula never hid his preference for losing candidate Sergio Massa, and Miley throughout the election campaign sharply attacked Brazil, a country with which he threatened to sever relations, and especially Lula himself, whom he called “communist” and “corrupt.” “.
The Brazilian government has not yet determined whether Lula will travel to Buenos Aires for Milea’s inauguration ceremony, but the possibility seems highly unlikely. Lula was one of the first heads of state to recognize the victory of Javier Miley, but he did not mention him by name, choosing to praise the strength of Argentine democracy, and the Chief Minister of the Public Relations Secretariat of the President of Brazil, Paulo Pimenta, said that Lula should lead this Monday and Friday some kind of dialogue with Miley only if the Argentine first publicly apologizes for the insults, which the Argentine is unlikely to do.