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After Saudi Arabia, Now Argentina is planning to not join BRICS


Argentina’s BRICS membership in doubt as opposition rejects move


Presidential candidates Javier Milei and Patricia Bullrich indicate they would withdraw the approved application for BRICS membership, casting serious doubt over likelihood of nation joining group of emerging economies.




Presidential candidate for the Juntos por el Cambio coalition, Patricia Bullrich, speaks during the event '2023 Latin American Cities: Conferences Buenos Aires' in Buenos Aires on August 24, 2023.
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR THE JUNTOS POR EL CAMBIO COALITION, PATRICIA BULLRICH, SPEAKS DURING THE EVENT '2023 LATIN AMERICAN CITIES: CONFERENCES BUENOS AIRES' IN BUENOS AIRES ON AUGUST 24, 2023. | LUIS ROBAYO / AFP

Argentina hasn’t even formally joined the BRICS yet, but its membership is already in doubt.

The two main opposition presidential candidates in the upcoming October elections, libertarian leader Javier Milei and right-wing hopeful Patricia Bullrich, both declared on Thursday that they would not allow the country to join the bloc of emerging economies led by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

The comments, which came just hours after President Alberto Fernández announced Argentina’s application had been approved, cast serious doubt over whether the country will even get to join the bloc at all.


Ascension is planned for January 1, 2024, by which time the general election will have taken place and a new head of state will have been sworn into office.

Addressing business leaders at an event in Buenos Aires, Bullrich said Thursday she would cancel the group's membership if she takes office on December 10.

Milei, who has already said he won’t trade with “communist” nations (a label he says applies to Brazil and China) said he doesn't want to deal with nations governed by the left in general.

"I'm not going to push for deals with communists because they don't respect the basic parameters of free trade, freedom and democracy, it's geopolitics," said Milei, the candidate for president of La Libertad Avanza who received the most votes of all candidates (30 percent) in a recent presidential primary election.


“Some countries are not along those lines,” he declared.

Bullrich was more forceful. President Fernández, she added, put the country “in a position of enormous weakness” for committing to entering the BRICS alongside Iran during the invasion of Ukraine.

"Argentina, under our government, will not be in the BRICS," said Bullrich, the presidential candidate for the main opposition Juntos por el Cambio coalition, which won 28 percent in the August 13 PASO through its two candidates.


Both presidential hopefuls spoke at a day of conferences organised by the US business organisation Council of Americas, which brought together political leaders from both the ruling and opposition parties in Buenos Aires.


BRICS leaders formally endorsed the enlargement of the bloc on Wednesday at a summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. As well as Argentina, applications from Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates were also approved.

Milei, who during the conference once again pitched his proposal to dollarise the nation’s economy, did say that if he came to power, he would allow private businesses to do business in the BRICS countries.
"I'm not going to get involved in that, it's the free market," he said.

Bullrich argued that her rejection of the BRICS group was based on Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the fact that Iran is among the new members, linked the country to the 1994 terrorist bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, which left 85 people dead.

Peronist President Alberto Fernández, who has not opted to seek re-election, later responded to Bullrich’s remarks in a radio interview. "You don't understand what you are saying, foreign policy has no ideologies," he told Radio Perfil.

Questions about Argentina’s long-term commitment to the BRICS underscore the challenges Brazil’s President Luiz Iáacio Lula da Silva faces to have more Latin American representation in the group. Argentina’s inclusion follows a request made last year by Fernández, a close ally of the Brazilian leader.

Speaking from Johannesburg, Lula said Brazil would negotiate with Argentina’s new president, regardless of who wins the October 22 election.

“It could be that the president will not want to negotiate with Brazil, and that is his sovereign right,” he said. “The relationship with Argentina is very important for Brazil and South America.”


– TIMES/AFP/BLOOMBERG

 
After Saudi Arabia, Now Argentina is planning to not join BRICS


Argentina’s BRICS membership in doubt as opposition rejects move


Presidential candidates Javier Milei and Patricia Bullrich indicate they would withdraw the approved application for BRICS membership, casting serious doubt over likelihood of nation joining group of emerging economies.


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Presidential candidate for the Juntos por el Cambio coalition, Patricia Bullrich, speaks during the event '2023 Latin American Cities: Conferences Buenos Aires' in Buenos Aires on August 24, 2023.'2023 Latin American Cities: Conferences Buenos Aires' in Buenos Aires on August 24, 2023.
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR THE JUNTOS POR EL CAMBIO COALITION, PATRICIA BULLRICH, SPEAKS DURING THE EVENT '2023 LATIN AMERICAN CITIES: CONFERENCES BUENOS AIRES' IN BUENOS AIRES ON AUGUST 24, 2023. | LUIS ROBAYO / AFP

Argentina hasn’t even formally joined the BRICS yet, but its membership is already in doubt.

The two main opposition presidential candidates in the upcoming October elections, libertarian leader Javier Milei and right-wing hopeful Patricia Bullrich, both declared on Thursday that they would not allow the country to join the bloc of emerging economies led by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

The comments, which came just hours after President Alberto Fernández announced Argentina’s application had been approved, cast serious doubt over whether the country will even get to join the bloc at all.


Ascension is planned for January 1, 2024, by which time the general election will have taken place and a new head of state will have been sworn into office.

Addressing business leaders at an event in Buenos Aires, Bullrich said Thursday she would cancel the group's membership if she takes office on December 10.

Milei, who has already said he won’t trade with “communist” nations (a label he says applies to Brazil and China) said he doesn't want to deal with nations governed by the left in general.


"I'm not going to push for deals with communists because they don't respect the basic parameters of free trade, freedom and democracy, it's geopolitics," said Milei, the candidate for president of La Libertad Avanza who received the most votes of all candidates (30 percent) in a recent presidential primary election.

“Some countries are not along those lines,” he declared.

Bullrich was more forceful. President Fernández, she added, put the country “in a position of enormous weakness” for committing to entering the BRICS alongside Iran during the invasion of Ukraine.

"Argentina, under our government, will not be in the BRICS," said Bullrich, the presidential candidate for the main opposition Juntos por el Cambio coalition, which won 28 percent in the August 13 PASO through its two candidates.


Both presidential hopefuls spoke at a day of conferences organised by the US business organisation Council of Americas, which brought together political leaders from both the ruling and opposition parties in Buenos Aires.


BRICS leaders formally endorsed the enlargement of the bloc on Wednesday at a summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. As well as Argentina, applications from Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates were also approved.

Milei, who during the conference once again pitched his proposal to dollarise the nation’s economy, did say that if he came to power, he would allow private businesses to do business in the BRICS countries.
"I'm not going to get involved in that, it's the free market," he said.

Bullrich argued that her rejection of the BRICS group was based on Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the fact that Iran is among the new members, linked the country to the 1994 terrorist bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, which left 85 people dead.

Peronist President Alberto Fernández, who has not opted to seek re-election, later responded to Bullrich’s remarks in a radio interview. "You don't understand what you are saying, foreign policy has no ideologies," he told Radio Perfil.

Questions about Argentina’s long-term commitment to the BRICS underscore the challenges Brazil’s President Luiz Iáacio Lula da Silva faces to have more Latin American representation in the group. Argentina’s inclusion follows a request made last year by Fernández, a close ally of the Brazilian leader.

Speaking from Johannesburg, Lula said Brazil would negotiate with Argentina’s new president, regardless of who wins the October 22 election.

“It could be that the president will not want to negotiate with Brazil, and that is his sovereign right,” he said. “The relationship with Argentina is very important for Brazil and South America.”


– TIMES/AFP/BLOOMBERG


Pakistan should try for the membership .
 
BRICS is a failed organization.

China should partner with OIC instead.
China is hungry for money and land , it sucks resources of the country it sets foot in . China has no locus on getting in association of lslam countries , because chinese are communist and they do not believe in religion . They want land and resources of poor countries like pakistan , srilanka, maldiv and african countries .
 
China is hungry for money and land , it sucks resources of the country it sets foot in . China has no locus on getting in association of lslam countries , because chinese are communist and they do not believe in religion . They want land and resources of poor countries like pakistan , srilanka, maldiv and african countries .

OIC has full faith in the Chinese leadership.
 
That's the proof why US wants every country to have democracy. Which gives US a big convience to indirectly control other countries by controlling local media and bribing politicians.

If this guy becomes president, we will see a big and never seen experiment of human society.
 
That's the proof why US wants every country to have democracy. Which gives US a big convience to indirectly control other countries by controlling local media and bribing politicians.

If this guy becomes president, we will see a big and never seen experiment of human society.

In Democratic countries, US has to manage multiple parties while in Communist countries Chinese need to manage only one party.
 
In Democratic countries, US has to manage multiple parties while in Communist countries Chinese need to manage only one party.
Incorrect. One party system doesn't have to care US because it doesn't need US money for election. And to be honest, one party governments rarely sell its national interest to US because the country is owned by the party. Multi parties government doesn't think it owns the country. This phenomenon is called "tragedy of the commons"
 
BRICS is pointless with India, since India is an enemy of China.
 
It was China who bail out deadbeat Argentina. When IMF see China comes in, she quickly refinance Argentina.

Argentina desperately need the BRICS bank.

But dont count out Zelensky style traitor within Argentina elites.

Argentina has struck a deal with China's central bank to settle more than half of its $2.7 billion debt due this week to the International Monetary Fund in yuan by tapping a currency swap line, its economy minister said on Monday.

The government used yuan equivalent to $1.7 billion under the swap arrangement with the People's Bank of China (PBOC) to repay part of the $2.7 billion due to the IMF, Sergio Tomas Massa said during a speech.


The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) executive board has approved a $7.5 billion disbursement for Argentina despite Buenos Aires missing key financial targets as it grapples with a prolonged economic crisis, the IMF said Wednesday.

 
Incorrect. One party system doesn't have to care US because it doesn't need US money for election. And to be honest, one party governments rarely sell its national interest to US because the country is owned by the party. Multi parties government doesn't think it owns the country. This phenomenon is called "tragedy of the commons"

KSA has one party system and has been with the US for the last 50 years at the least.
 
Nothing burger, the far-right candidate will not win the election.
 
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