Lula promised to help Massa against Milei in the election campaign, Argentine newspapers report

The minister and candidate supported by President Alberto Fernández detailed the conversation and the concerns of the PT deputy

BRASILIA – On August 29, Argentine newspapers reported the conversation that took place the day before between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, in the Planalto Palace. Peronist candidate to succeed Alberto Fernández, Massa was in Brazil on the 28th to organize another loan, worth 600 million dollars, with the aim of financing exports.

Lula told the minister, according to the candidate, that he will send people from his team to Argentina, with the aim of helping him in the campaign “to stop the right”. Elections are scheduled for the 22nd in Argentina.

It was Massa himself who told journalists about the dialogue with the president. “A genius, Lula. He promised that he would help us win (Javier) Milei,” the Argentine Economy Minister told his companions during the flight back to Buenos Aires, according to an article published by the newspaper The nationon August 29, signed by Jaime Rosenberg.

“How could this help to materialize? Participants in the meeting, where it was discussed “80% politics and 20 economics” (…) confirmed that Lula offered Massa “our people” in terms of communication “to prevent the right from winning and going back forty years”, with clear reference to the libertarian candidate Javier Milei”, he wrote the journalist.

Citing his campaign last year with former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is up for re-election, Lula said: “Milei is crazy, worse than Bolsonaro.” The president also emphasized that it is necessary to make every effort for Massa’s victory. “We have to beat it for Mercosur to continue,” Lula said The nation.

Newspaper report The globepublished this Thursday 5, talks about the PT’s help to Massa’s campaign.

“Following exactly the request of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, increasingly worried about the outcome of the Argentine presidential elections, the strategists linked to the PT who arrived in Buenos Aires after the Simultaneous and mandatory open primaries (Paso)held on August 13, to strengthen the team of the Peronist candidate Sergio Massa, Minister of Economy in the government of Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner, are fighting against time to prevent the victory of the far right in the country”, reads an excerpt of the report, signed by Janaína Figueiredo, correspondent of the newspaper from Buenos Aires.

Marketer Sidônio Pereira, who was in charge of Lula’s television programs last year, was invited to work on Massa’s campaign, but he did not accept because he felt time was short. The information was revealed by The globe and confirmed by Estadao. The PT’s press office says the party “did not indicate or mediate anyone’s actions in political campaigns in other countries.”

Again on August 29, the Argentine newspaper Page 12 brought the report of the conversation between Lula and Massa to Planalto, narrated by the candidate himself.

“Do what you have to do, but win,” the president said, according to Argentina’s economy minister. “Stop collecting dollars and collecting votes. You have to win for the integrity of Mercosur. It is your responsibility to win,” Lula added, according to the report Page 12, signed by Melisa Molina, with the title “Everything Lula said to Massa”

OR Page 12 It also describes how the conversation took place between Lula and the candidate supported by the president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, about one of the loans from the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF).

“In another central moment of the conversation between the Argentine and Brazilian delegations, they obviously talked about the agreement reached with the CAF, which will guarantee an agreement of 600 dollars to finance exports from Brazil to Argentina. ‘President, then After In nine months we found the solution to a problem”, Massa told him”, according to Página 12.

The loan mentioned is not the same as the $1 billion loan given by CAF to Argentina and disclosed by Estadao. The $1 billion loan, approved by 20 of the 21 CAF member countries – with Peru voting against – was granted so that Argentina, with no dollars on the market, could receive part of the $7.5 billion from International Monetary Fund (IMF). ).

The Lula government announced on August 28 that cooperation between Banco do Brasil, the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) and CAF could secure an export agreement to the neighboring country.

“The initiative still requires approval from the CAF management board, which will meet on September 14,” read a text published that day on the government’s official website. However, the loan was not realized because, according to the Ministry of Finance, neither Argentina nor CAF presented a structured proposal.

Also present at Lula’s meeting with Massa were the Argentine ambassador to Brazil, Daniel Scioli; the secretaries of Industry, José Ignacio de Mendiguren; of Agriculture, Juan José Bahillo, and of Energy, Flavia Royón. For the Brazilian side, the Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad, was present; the former chancellor Celso Amorim, Lula’s special advisor, and the Foreign Minister, Mauro Vieira, as well as a representative of the Banco do Brasil.

According to the Argentine delegation, Celso Amorim was “crazy” about Milei’s rise and the possible victory of the far-right candidate in the October 22 elections.

“Amorim also spoke on the phone, on site, with Roberto Lavagna, former Minister of Economy whom Lula praised during the meeting,” said the The nation. “The conversation also focused on whether to pay ‘more attention’ to the Arab world,” reads an excerpt from the report, noting that a CAF board meeting will be held in Madrid on 14 September, where the incorporation of the new countries.

The newspaper also underlines that the concern for the libertarian phenomenon represented by Milei did not suddenly appear in Lula’s head.

“Two years ago, in a meeting that (Daniel) Scioli met him at his home, the Brazilian became interested and asked the ambassador to send him a speech by Milei”, reports the publication. “I told him that I was studying these phenomena in the region and in the world and that I was worried about the great change that has occurred in societies in recent times”. Always according to The nationLula told Scioli: “We must not deny the appearance of these characters, but rather understand them.”

When contacted, the Secretariat for Social Communications of the Presidency (Secom) did not confirm the content of the conversation between Lula and Massa. OR Estadao discovered that the president did not want to record a campaign video for the Argentine Economy Minister that day.

Source: Terra

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