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Updated October 30th, 2019 at 22:11 IST

PM Modi wishes Fernandez for winning Argentina Presidential Election

PM Modi on Wednesday tweeted in Spanish to wish Alberto Fernández upon winning the Argentina Presidential elections; he also expressed hope to strengthen ties

Reported by: Misha Bhatt
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday took to Twitter to congratulate Alberto Fernández on winning the Argentinian Presidential elections. Prime Minister Modi also expressed hope to strengthen the strategic partnership between India and Argentina.

Taking to Twitter, PM Modi also congratulated Alberto Fernández in Spanish, he wrote, "My warm congratulations to @alferdez for his impressive triumph in the presidential elections. I look forward to working together to further expand and deepen the strategic partnership between India and Argentina."

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Alberto Fernández's victory address

In his victory speech, Fernández declared that Brazil’s leftist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva -- Bolsonaro’s nemesis -- is unjustly imprisoned and demanded his freedom. Bolsonaro, meanwhile, told reporters during a visit to Abu Dhabi that Argentina had “chosen poorly” and that he didn’t intend to offer his congratulations.

Brazil and Argentina are the biggest members of the Mercosur trade customs union that this year celebrated reaching a free-trade accord with the European Union after two decades of negotiations. The deal appeared to be a bonanza for South American farm products, while French farmers feared it would swamp them with cheap imports, particularly beef and poultry.

Fernández will begin his four-year term in December and Bolsonaro’s first term finishes in December 2022, meaning they will simultaneously hold office for at least three years.

Oliver Stuenkel, a professor of international relations at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, a university in Sao Paulo, said that open hostility between the two reflects them playing to radical wings of their respective alliances to ensure domestic support. That strategy will make it difficult for pragmatists on either side of the border to defuse the imbroglio, notwithstanding their economic interdependence.

“When you don’t have a personal, workable relationship, anything can become a fire. When there’s no trust on top, it’s hard to put out fires. There will be disagreements,” Stuenkel said by phone. “There are doubts about whether Fernández and Bolsonaro will be on talking terms.

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(With agency inputs)

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Published October 30th, 2019 at 21:26 IST

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