Bolsonaro fears Argentines flee to Brazil if Alberto F. wins

President Jair Bolsonaro warned today that a possible victory of opposition candidate Alberto Fernández in the presidential elections in October could provoke an "escape" of the Argentineans to Brazil and provoke a situation similar to that of the northern border with Venezuela, in the state of Roraima

"If these leftists return to Argentina, we will have a new state of Roraima in Rio Grande do Sul.We do not want it, we do not want the Argentine brothers to flee here, considering that something serious can happen if the result from yesterday is repeated in October "Bolsonaro said.

In a speech delivered in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, a border state with Argentina and Uruguay, Bolsonaro reacted to the victory at PASO of the formula Alberto Fernández-Cristina Fernández de Kirchner after publicly endorsing the re-election of President Mauricio Macri.

"Do not forget that a little further south, in Argentina, it happened something in the elections of yesterday … the group of Cristina Kirchner, identical to Dilma Rousseff , (Nicolás) Maduro and (Hugo) Chávez, and Fidel Castro, give a sign of life here (in Argentina), "he said.

At the end of the official ceremony, Bolsonaro met with journalists claiming that Brazil was hosting Venezuelan refugees in Roraima and affirmed that "the return of Cristina Kirchner will prompt Argentina to follow the path of Venezuela ".