Embassies: Daniel Scioli will remain in Brazil and Gerardo Werthein will go to the United States

President-elect Javier Milei confirmed on Wednesday Gerardo Werthein as ambassador to the United States and ratified that Daniel Scioli will continue after December 10 as the country’s representative in Brazil, as happened during the government of Alberto Fernandez. who will be Luis Caputo and confirmed that “the idea is that Daniel Scioli continues in that task,” at the head of the Brazilian embassy. Likewise, regarding Werthein, who accompanied him on the visit to the North American country, he assured: “He is going to be our ambassador to the United States.” Werthein was part of the official entourage that traveled to North America this week with Milei, where the president-elect met with White House National Security Advisor Jack Sullivan and White House Special Adviser for Latin American Affairs, Juan Gonzalez, among other activities. Also in the delegation were the Minister of Economy and former Secretary of Finance, Caputo; the possible Chief of Staff, Nicolás Posse; the U.S. ambassador to Argentina, Marc Stanley; the presidential advisor, Santiago Caputo; and the president-elect’s sister, Karina Milei.Scioli can remain in BrazilMilei confirmed that there is an intention for the former governor of the province of Buenos Aires to continue to carry out his work at the embassy. However, the one who had been bothered by this possibility was the incumbent president Alberto Fernández, who yesterday had expressed his anger. “I don’t understand very well how the government of Alberto Fernández and the government of Milei can be represented in the same way, I don’t understand it. And don’t come to me with the story that this is representing Argentina because that’s false. Because they are two different Argentinas,” the president said in an interview with Urbana Play. The possibility of Scioli’s continuity in Brazil loomed large several days before Fernandez’s interview. The diplomatic representative participated in several meetings in Brasilia with Diana Mondino, the administration’s foreign minister, which will begin on December 10. “The will is for Scioli to continue and that is also the opinion in the case of Brazil,” Mondino told Reuters. Radio Rivadavia days ago, although he added that his appointment cannot yet be confirmed because “it depends on Congress.” Yesterday the ambassador said he was willing to “collaborate from different places” with the administration of Javier Milei and opened the possibility of continuing as ambassador by affirming that he is a “statesman” who will always “defend the interests of Argentines.” If he continues in office, Scioli will require the support of votes in Congress for his list to be confirmed. The former governor’s mission will be to maintain bilateral relations with the government of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) headed by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, after the president-elect branded him during the campaign as a “thief”, “furious communist” and said that he could cut trade relations with his country. Even the libertarian, who has a greater affinity with former President Jair Bolsonaro, first invited him to his inauguration, so Lula could not appear at the December 10 ceremony. Despite the fact that, after winning the elections, Milei made a 180° turn in his campaign message and invited the Brazilian president to his presidential inauguration, the relationship is still very tense and Scioli’s continuity could maintain ties with the neighboring country and main trading partner.

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