The Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvasaid on Friday that the extreme right threatens democracy in the world, and gave as an example the case of his Argentine counterpart, Javier Milei.
“What is at risk in the world is democracy, because of fascism, because of Nazism, because of the rabid, ignorant and brutal extreme right”Lula said at an official event in Porto Alegre (south).
The veteran leftist regretted that politics is “taken by hate.”
“It is often easier to be against than to think, because you don’t have to think something stupid, you just say it.”he claimed.
“And who is today against the system, which criticizes everything? Milei in Argentina, which even the Central Bank wants to close. “He wants to cut everything with a saw.”He launched.
He was referring to a chainsaw that Milei used during the election campaign to dramatize his main message: that he would cut all State expenses that he considered superfluous.
As a candidate, the far-right launched harsh criticism of Lula, whom he called “communist” and “corrupt”.
The Brazilian president, for his part, then said that Argentina needed to elect a president who liked democracy.
In his speech this Friday about the threats to democracy, Lula also alluded to his predecessor, the far-right Jair Bolsonaro, “which to this day does not recognize its defeat.”
Bolsonaro is being investigated for his alleged involvement in a coup attempt.
In statements to police published on Friday, former senior military officers linked him to an alleged plan to stay in power after his electoral defeat in 2022.
Source: Gestion
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