Alberto Fernández met in Portugal Prime Minister Antonio Costa – Telam

Alberto Fernndez met with Prime Minister Antonio Costa in Portugal.

The presidential candidate of the Todos Front, Alberto Fernández, met in Lisbon with Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa, with whom he seeks to establish a political link to the triumph of Peronism in the elections of 27 October.

Fernández was received by Costa at the Sao Bento Palace, seat of the Parliament, where, during a meeting of one and a half hours duration, the two leaders discussed "l & # 39; 39, Portuguese experience, the situation in Argentina and the future of the agreement between Mercosur and the European Union ", according to sources of the Peronist candidate.

At the meeting, Mr Fernández emphasized the "need to work with Spain to finalize the agreement between the European Union and Mercosur", announced at the end of July, but which is not yet known. is not yet materialized.

The Portuguese government is an example to follow for the other European social democratic parties with whom we want to strengthen ties."

At a conference at the Congress of Spanish Deputies, Mr Fernández stressed Thursday that he was in favor of greater integration with Europe, while adding that this goal was to be achieved "without harming in Argentina ".

Similarly, Fernández and Costa commented in depth on the current Portuguese model, believing that it presented certain parallels with the economic policy applied by Nestor Kirchner between 2003 and 2007.

Costa, leader of the Portuguese Socialist Party, has been governing since the end of 2015 with the support of the Communists, the Greens and the Esquerda bloc, close to the Spaniards of Podemos, and is considered a model by the other European social democratic leaders.

He reached an agreement that seemed impossible to achieve left-wing convergence dominated by the center-left, which provoked a reversal of the downward trend of the socialists.

The Costa Rican government currently represents a "social alternative to neoliberal austerity", which does not undermine the rules of the Eurozone.