Alberto Fernández called for respect for electoral processes in Latin America

President Alberto Fernandez participated in the summit of the Community of States of Latin America and the Caribbean (Celac) and of the European Union (EU). In this context, he launched a message ahead of Sunday’s second round of elections in Brazil: “I ask for reflection on my continent. I do not want democracy or the popular verdict to be respected anywhere nor upset the electoral processes in progress “.

In this sense, the president – who holds the pro tempore presidency of CELAC – expressed that “Latin America was gradually recovering the value of democracy and its institutions” and recalled that “we have suffered greatly from day that, in Bolivia, a coup d’etat prevented Evo Morales from assuming the presidency he had won “.

“It’s time once and for all that we join forces and do not fall into worlds of unique speechesWe respect multilateralism and grow together. This is the obligation we have, “Fernandez said in his opening speech before foreign ministers and representatives of the two blocs, which he gave at the Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK).

In this sense, Fernández affirmed it Latin America is a “peace zone where we resolve conflicts by talking”he asked to “evaluate the dialogue” and asked “gets very hard on violent and hate cultists.”

In addition, he referred to the Brazilian elections next Sunday and said: “I ask for reflection on my continent. I do not want democracy or the popular verdict to be respected anywhere, or for electoral processes to be distorted. that are in progress “.

Furthermore, along this line, he indicated that “Latin America was gradually recovering the value of democracy and its institutions!” and I remembered it “We suffered a lot on the day when a coup d’état in Bolivia prevented Evo Morales from assuming the presidency he had won.”

“Europe must help us achieve development”

Secondly, Alberto Fernández said that Europe “must help us achieve development”. “The gap between these two worlds is very wide. If Argentina is to have a partner, that partner must be Europe,” said the Argentine president.

“There in the north, missiles are fired and here in the south they go hungry. There in the north they compete for gas, but here in the south we lack the energy to be able to develop. We understand well where we started and the moment in which we live. There are two worlds and the gap between them is very big, “she said, also referring to the war between Russia and Ukrainewho affirmed that “it is a war that breaks with the elementary principles” of the United Nations, “territorial integrity” and the “peaceful solution of conflicts”.

At the beginning of his speech, the President recalled this “The pandemic has exposed the injustice of the world and to integrate we must understand the injustice of the international system. “” That inequality was made evident when the vaccine was developed and had to be redistributed among all countries, “he acknowledged and exemplified in this regard that in a pandemic “The statistics indicate that mortality in poor countries was four times higher than in developed countries and this only speaks of inequality.”

As an experience of the pandemic, the head of state indicated that “we have been forced to rethink many things” and, among them, the role of the state and that of public health. “We live in the decade of liberalism in the 90s and the permanent eruption of liberal sectors in our governments we enter a huge crisis when we look at the importance of public health in such critical moments as we had to live in the pandemic, “he admitted.