Lula: “Milei should apologize to Brazil and me for saying a lot nonsense”

The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, stated this Wednesday that his Argentine counterpart, Javier Milei, should apologize to him for having stated “loads of nonsense.”

In an interview with the UOL portal, the president additionally commented that he didn’t converse with Milei in regards to the Bolsonaro supporters who escaped to Argentina after being convicted by the Brazilian Justice for collaborating within the assaults on January 8, 2023 in Brasilia.

“I didn’t converse with the president of Argentina as a result of I feel he has to apologize to Brazil and me. “He stated loads of nonsense, I simply need him to apologize,” he stated.

The president defined that the Minister of Justice, Ricardo Lewandowski, the director of the Federal Police, Andrei Rodrigues and the Minister of Overseas Affairs, Mauro Vieira, are negotiating with the Milei Authorities in order that fugitive Brazilians who refuse to be extradited to Brazil are detained in Argentina.

“If these guys do not need to come, allow them to be arrested there, arrested there and imprisoned in Argentina,” he burdened.

Lula commented that he likes Argentina “so much.” “It’s a crucial nation for Brazil, and Brazil is essential for Argentina and it isn’t a president of the Republic who’s going to create a niche between the 2 international locations,” she highlighted.

The Brazilian head of state met with the Argentine president just lately on the G7 summit in Italy, however they didn’t meet.

An ally of former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, Milei said throughout his electoral marketing campaign that if elected he wouldn’t meet with Lula, whom he described as “communist and corrupt.”

For his half, the Brazilian president didn’t attend the Argentine’s inauguration in December of final yr and despatched his overseas minister, Mauro Vieira.

Milei doesn’t must “remorse something”

The Authorities of Argentina considers that the president, Javier Milei, “has not dedicated something that he has to remorse,” was the response of the Milei administration after the Brazilian president’s request for an apology.

“No matter President Lula intends is inside his needs, however the president (Milei) has not dedicated something that he has to remorse, not less than for the second,” declared the Argentine presidential spokesman, Manuel Adorni, at a convention this Wednesday. press convention on the Casa Rosada.

Milei and Lula met for the primary time final week, on the G7 summit held in Italy, however they prevented one another, didn’t alternate any phrases nor had been they seen collectively in pictures. Each will meet once more on July 8 in Asunción, throughout the framework of the semi-annual Mercosur summit, to which Lula has already confirmed her attendance.