Lula will have a separate meeting with Argentine Vice President Cristina Kirchner in Buenos Aires

The president of BrazilLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva, will hold a separate meeting on Monday with Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, as part of his official visit to Argentina that begins this weekend, according to two Reuters sources.

away from the president Alberto FernandezCristina Fernández should not participate in Lula’s meeting at the Casa Rosada, seat of the Argentine government.

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The vice president celebrated the electoral victory of the Brazilian Workers’ Party on her social networks in October and, shortly after, called the Brazilian president, when they would have arranged a meeting as soon as possible.

Fernandez de Kirchner She was president of Argentina from 2007 to 2015 and has always had a good relationship with the Brazilian president. During Lula’s imprisonment in Curitiba, she was one of the region’s politicians to defend the freedom of the Brazilian.

Now, the Argentine vice president is also facing trials in her country. In December, she was sentenced at first instance to six years in prison for corruption, accused of benefiting a businessman from Santa Cruz -the Kirchners’ province of origin- when she was in office and also during the term of her husband, Néstor. Kirchner, now deceased.

On his social networks, on the day of the sentence, Lula expressed his solidarity with Fernández, and spoke of a “judicial manhunt.”

“I express my solidarity with the president Cristina Kirchner and their collaborators who have done so much for the Argentine people and for South American integration. The true judicial and media manhunt launched against this comrade whom I admire and esteem so much is worrying, ”he wrote.

Lula will arrive in Buenos Aires early Sunday for an official visit to the country, where he will also participate in the summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). (Edited in Spanish by Marion Giraldo)

Source: Elcomercio

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