Alberto Fernández will travel to Brazil on Sunday for the inauguration of Lula

The President of Argentina, Alberto Fernandezwill travel on January 1 to attend the inauguration of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as Brazilian president, which will take place that same day in Brasilia.

As confirmed by official sources to EFE on Wednesday, the Argentine head of state will leave on Sunday with his wife, Fabiola Yanezand the chancellor santiago cafierowho will return to Buenos Aires at the end of the day.

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The Argentine president, who is closely related to Lula da Silva, traveled to Brazil on October 31, one day after the former president’s victory (2003-2010), to meet with the leader of the Workers’ Party and congratulate him on his electoral victory. in the second round of the presidential elections.

For Lula’s inauguration, at least 17 heads of state and government are expected. Among others are King Felipe VI of Spain and the leaders of Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay and the presidents of Germany and Portugal.

Likewise, some 300,000 people are expected to attend the party prepared by Lula’s team, which will include a concert featuring dozens of popular artists.

It seems that the person who will not be at the inauguration ceremony is the current president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, since everything indicates that he will travel to the United States at any time and will avoid participating in the ceremony next Sunday.

The transition team of the president-elect of Brazil guaranteed this Tuesday that the inauguration ceremony next Sunday will be “peaceful”, despite the threats of terrorists who resist the result of the polls.

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“It will not be small terrorist groups that are going to wall up Brazilian democracy. They do not have space, they will not have space, they did not win, nor will they win”, affirmed the future Minister of Justice, flavio dinoabout the threats from far-right groups that support the outgoing president, Jair Bolsonaro.

The alarms for the security of the investiture went off last weekend, when the Brasilia Police deactivated a bomb placed in a tanker truck that, according to investigations, would be detonated at the city’s airport.

Source: Elcomercio

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