According to Brazilian law, the vice president becomes acting president from the moment the president crosses the border
Vice-President Geraldo Alckmin (PSB) will assume the Presidency of the Republic for the first time tonight, with President Lula (PT) going to Argentina.
Lula departs at 6 pm for his international trip. Under Brazilian law, the vice president becomes acting president from the moment the president crosses the border.
Alckmin ran for the presidency twice, when he was still in the PSDB, a party he helped found and where he spent 33 years — at the beginning of last year, he went to the PSB to compose Lula’s ticket.
In the first time, he was defeated by Lula himself, in the second round of 2006. In the second, he ended up in fourth place, in 2018, when Jair Bolsonaro (then PSL, today PL) was elected.
The situation is already yielding memes and jokes on the internet. Alckmin ended up paying the PSDB’s bill for having received less than 5% of the votes in 2018, the first time that the party did not go to the second round.
In an internal dispute with former governor of São Paulo João Doria (today without a party), he left the acronym without much fanfare at the end of 2021. Now, Internet users joke, he has turned around.
This is Lula’s first international trip since he took office. He is going to participate in Celac (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States), in Buenos Aires, between tomorrow and Tuesday (24).
CONTINUE AFTER ADVERTISING
A series of meetings are planned with heads of state from Latin America, including Argentine President Alberto Fernández and Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel.
On Wednesday (25), he will travel to Montevideo, Uruguay, where he will also meet with President Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou.
The trip marks the resumption of strengthening among Latin American countries, one of the hallmarks of the first Lula administration (2003-2010). Since the campaign, the PT has been talking regarding stimulating commercial treaties locally and strengthening Mercosur (Southern Common Market).
CONTINUE AFTER ADVERTISING
