Orsi will see Milei at the Mercosur summit and designs a strategic relationship with a focus on trade

Orsi will see Milei at the Mercosur summit and designs a strategic relationship with a focus on trade

The elected president, Yamandu Orsiyou will meet the president of Argentina, Javier Mileiat the XVL Mercosur summit, which will be held in Montevideo in just 10 days.

Orsi was invited by the President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pouto participate in the regional forum that will take place on December 5 and 6, in what will be a kind of transition in the diplomatic arena.

It is expected that, regardless of the name given to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs As of March 1, the government of Broad Front (FA) continue with the line of demand for flexibility of the bloc that characterized the current administration and that was inaugurated in the government of Tabare Vazquez.

Milei, who missed the Mercosur summit in Assumption In June, arousing the discontent of Lacalle Pou – “all presidents should be here” – he reported through his chancellor, Gerardo Wertheinhis decision to participate in this edition of the meeting, the Uruguayan Foreign Ministry had confirmed to Scope.

The eventual relationship that the Argentine president and Orsi will have, at ideological antipodes, was a subject of speculation throughout the campaign. Media and influencers of the libertarian army on social networks made an effort to show a triumph of the former mayor of Canelones as a communist threat.

From this side, Orsi always stopped these provocations and stressed that the relationship will be the one that corresponds to two countries with as much bond as Uruguay and Argentina. Yesterday after voting he ratified it and, in case there were any doubts, this morning in a raid on Argentine radio stations he returned to it: “it has to be good, there is no chance,” he insisted.

The Argentine government also gave signals. On Sunday night, the Foreign Ministry of that country was one of the first to welcome the election of the Broad Front. “The Argentine Republic congratulates the Uruguayan people for their exemplary civic day and greets the president-elect Yamandu Orsi for his victory,” the portfolio directed by Werthein communicated in

The bilateral relationship between Uruguay and Argentina is not only important in the regional diplomatic arena. The country is a recipient of millions of dollars annually in investments from Argentine businessmenmany of whom also build a relationship of belonging, choosing it to live.

In fact, the first message that Orsi gave regarding that the link with Milei would be strategic over ideological was precisely before 110 Argentine businessmen, in Buenos Aires at the end of September. Then he also promised to maintain a free capital market. “I see no reason to modify a free financial market, there are no restrictions on the entry or exit of capital,” he stressed.

Source: Ambito

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