Alberto Fernández congratulated Valdés and suspended a trip to Ecuador to devote himself to the campaign

President Alberto Fernandez He had planned to go Tuesday, August 31 at noon in Ecuador where he had scheduled an interview with the president of this country, Guillermo Lasso. La visita de Estado estaba pautada para que dur dos días pero la obligación de tener que tener un período de aislamiento a regreso por haber viajado al exterior, como cuando estuvo a fines de julio en Perú, hizo que el primer mandatario de la Argentina definiera desestimar this trip.

Fernández’s intention is to focus specifically on domestic issues to devote himself to the final days of the campaign, as the open and compulsory primaries approach (PASO), which would generate some complexity because if he visited the Ecuador in his On his return, he was going to have to spend 10 days at the Quinta de Olivos in a period of isolation.

In this context, the President also congratulated the Governor of Corrientes, Gustavo Valdes, who obtained his re-election yesterday by a large difference compared to the candidate of Frente de Todos. It was an election beating and garnered 76% of the vote. “My congratulations, we will continue to work together in diversity for the good of the beloved people of Corrientes, ”he said through social networks.

Regarding the trip to Ecuador, Fernández was going to travel in the Tango 04 plane and he was going to do so accompanied by the Secretary General of the Presidency, Julio Vitobello, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Felipe Solá, and the communications secretary, Juan Pablo Biondi.

As established in the agenda, which must now find a new date, Tuesday evening, Fernández and Lasso were going to dinner. The Argentine president did not travel for the inauguration of the Ecuadorian president which took place on May 24, the date chosen for the commemoration of the Battle of Pichincha in 1822, key to the independence of this country. At that time, the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic was hitting Argentina very hard and because of this, the trip was suspended.

On Monday April 12 of this year, just hours after the closing of the elections in Ecuador, Alberto Fernández congratulated his Ecuadorian counterpart on the ballot victory in the elections in which Lasso defeated Andres Arauz, the candidate that Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador between 2007 and 2017, decided to support, who remains in exile in Belgium after being sentenced to 8 years in prison for corruption.

Arauz, that Fernández considered the leader of the left to consolidate his idea of ​​”progressivism” in South America, he ended up defeated.

Lasso, a 65-year-old right-wing former banker, businessman and politician, who in his two previous Ecuadorian presidential appointments failed to achieve his goal, replaced Lenin Moreno (who had been vice president until to the displacement of Correa) in the government. .

Thus ended 14 years of reign of factions linked to the political project of the choreism, whose leader has been very close on several occasions to the current Argentine vice-president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and previously also to Néstor Kirchner.

On July 28, the first meeting between the two leaders finally took place and this visit began to take place there. They coincided at the Westin Hotel in Lima during Pedro Castillo’s accession to the Peruvian presidency. With his Chancellor Solá, Fernández spoke with Lasso, with his Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mauricio montalvo, the Secretary General of the Presidency of Ecuador, Ralph Suástegui Brborich and the presidential adviser, Aparicio Caicedo Castillo.

At the end of this meeting, the Argentinian president underlined that with his Ecuadorian counterpart, they had “a very common vision of the need for Latin America to integrate more and to constitute again a space of unity. where we can discuss the problems we have. “

And he felt that it was “a meeting that has been far more than productive even when many stop us in different paths, the truth is that the differences are not that many when it comes to seeing how we narrow them down. objectives, and we must achieve mutual respect in diversity and work together for what Latin America needs, which is to create a space where we can discuss our destiny ”.

The last time he was abroad, in Lima, Alberto Fernández spent a week of isolation although he was exempt from it.

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