“The Argentines are already fleeing to Brazil”

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday launched a new criticism of Alberto Fernández’s government, saying that “Argentines are already fleeing to Brazil“Because of the crisis the country is going through and he warned that this would happen when the left returned to power”, in an attempt to target his maximum political rival Luis Inacio “Lula” da Silva.

“Watch what happens when the left returns to power. In 2019, I had anticipated it. The Argentines are already fleeing to Brazil. The Brazilians, where are they going to escape? Bolsonaro said in a speech to supporters at the presidential residence.

The president again referred to an alleged move by Argentines to leave for Brazil for the second time in a week, after citing accounts of Argentines allegedly living on the coast of São Paulo state.

The radio Young saucepan published a report on an Argentinian who came illegally from Bolivia to Brazil by land.

Bolsonaro thus attempted to target Lula, who appears to be poll favorite after their corruption convictions were overturned.

In this context, the Brazilian president declared that Lula “is against the democratic vote” for not having supported him in the demand to change the electoral system with an electronic ballot box which has been in force since 1996 and which enabled the election. of the head of state and his three sons.

“The same people who took Lula out of jail are going to count the votes and that is why they are against electronic voting controlled by paper voting,” said the president, who announced on Thursday that he would show the fraud cases of the year 2014 election.

Bolsonaro also said that “for two years there has been no corruption in Brazil”, although he admitted that he was “accused” of this crime by the federal police “for a vaccine which did not has not been purchased “.

He also stressed that he can walk around the country while Lula “cannot go out for a drink in a bar because he is insulted and they say he has 49% intention to vote”.

The comment came after the diary Newspaper published that the Workers’ Party recommends increasing Lula’s security when he begins to tour the country to bolster his possible candidacy next year.

The tension is growing

After repeated crossovers around Mercosur’s business strategies, the tension between the government of Alberto Fernández and the Bolsonaro administration was on the rise.

A few days ago, the Brazilian president mentioned the arrival of Argentines in this country: “No need to have a crystal ball to say it. Whoever makes the wrong choices will pay the price sooner or later“Bolsonaro said on his weekly live social media show.

On this occasion, he recounted that, during a visit to Paraná, a Brazilian state on the border with Paraguay and Argentina, he met a young Argentine immigrant who began to cry when the president asked about the situation in the neighboring country.

“The rivalry between Brazilians and Argentines only in football. We want prosperous, strong, free and democratic neighbors, but the choice between one candidate and another is up to the Argentine people …” he said.

And he added: “We are forcing Argentina to recover, but it is not easy. It is a sign that shutting down everything (in the midst of a pandemic) has not worked in Argentina, which has the one of the highest mortality rates (by covid) per 100,000 inhabitants “.

With information from Telam.