Message to Bullrich: “The firmness that counts is not to see who yells louder”

The tension in the political arm had a correlate in statements. Horacio Rodríguez Larreta responded yesterday to Patricia Bullrich, who spoke that “there is no room for lukewarm answers.” Within this framework, the community chief responded: “The crack is a scam, because those who promote it know that with the crack we are going to fail. No one can deny the story. We’ve been fighting each other for 80 years. The first 40, to the shots; the last ones, where each one that arrived started again (…) It doesn’t work. That’s why I insist we try something different. If we continue on this path, the result will be the same”.

In this context, the Buenos Aires president, on the channel CO+, expressed: “First, I think that the firmness that counts is not to see who shouts louder in a rostrum, but to solve people’s problems. What is worth is when I stand up so that the schools do not close, or I fight against the mafias and insecurity in the Capital. That is the firmness that is worth. The rest is shouting from the stands and it doesn’t change anyone’s life. Those who play are those who are on the field. So, don’t get into those discussions. I govern with Kirchnerism and the national government in front. But of course I talk to Patricia Bullrich”.

On the other hand, he said that he is in no hurry to announce who his running mate could be and assured: “He could be radical. I believe in plurality and breadth, but today it would be premature [comunicarlo]”. And when asked about the possibility that his vice president is Bullrich or Morales, he expressed: “With none of the main references of JxC it would be a disparate [pensar en compartir fórmula]”. Asked if he would sit at a table to talk with Cristina Kirchner, the Buenos Aires president evaluated: “No. I don’t see any possibility of agreeing with Cristina Kirchner. Cristina Kirchner believes that the only friends we have to have are Venezuela and Cuba. She is part of the government that closed the schools, released the prisoners, and is the one that wants to send militants from La Cámpora to the supermarkets to lower inflation. I never agree. It is one thing to talk and another to agree.

For his part, the radical Facundo Manes in Clarín said that “talking about candidacies now is disrespecting society, it is increasing the divorce between people and politics. Argentina is the country with the most presidential candidates per capita. And society is on another channel, it does not ask for personal projects. He is having a hard time, he is poor and he feels that there is no long-term bet.