He Argentine presidential candidate Javier Milei He valued a possible incorporation into his eventual government of the defeated former candidate of the opposition coalition Together for Change (center-right), Patricia Bullrich.
“If she wanted to join, how could I not incorporate her!” said the leader of the political force La Libertad Avanza in a radio interview. one day after the celebration of the first Argentine electoral round, where Milei came second after obtaining 29.98% of the votes, below the ruling party Sergio Massa, who won the elections obtaining 36.68% of the votes.
“She (Bullrich) has been successful in combating insecurity; therefore we have no problem,” The libertarian assured, referring to her management as Minister of Security during the government of Mauricio Macri (2015-2019).
Bullrich was the big loser on Sunday in the South American country with only 23.83% of the votes.
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“We will never be accomplices of the mafias that destroyed this country. Our values cannot be sold or bought. From wherever I am, I will never give up in my fight against populism,” Bullrich said in a message published this Monday on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
After knowing the results, The former candidate avoided making explicit her support for Milei’s candidacy.
For his part, the libertarian candidate expressed during the interview his “total and absolute agreement” with Bullrich on security matters.
Milei went even further and compared the leader of Together for Change with her candidate for vice president, Victoria Villarruel, who appears in all the pools to assume the Defense portfolio in a possible libertarian cabinet.
“Villarruel’s vision is aligned with hers, the sentence there is clear, which is that ‘he who makes it, pays for it’, and that point between the two is so clear that we cannot even distinguish who is the owner of the slogan,” he said.
Faced with these complimentary comments about Bullrich, Milei criticized his rival in the August primary elections, the mayor of Buenos Aires, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, who he said “does not represent the ideas of freedom and has clear collectivist traits.” .
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This Tuesday, meanwhile, The former candidate of Together for Change (center-right) for the Argentine Presidency, Patricia Bullrich, returned to assume the direction of Propuesta Republicana (Pro), one of the parties that make up that coalition, after the defeat suffered in Sunday’s elections.
In a letter sent to the formation co-founded by former president Mauricio Macri (2015-2019), the former Minister of Security “terminated the timely requested license” to begin her career towards the Argentine Presidency.
Sunday’s defeat leaves the Together for Change coalition very shaken, since Bullrich could not retain the 28% support it had achieved in the elections PASO (primaries, open, simultaneous and mandatory) held in August, with the sum of their votes and those of Rodríguez Larreta.
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With questions about the leadership of the figure of Macri – whose cousin, Jorge Macri, will be the next head of Government of the City of Buenos Aires, the coalition is on the verge of a crisis.
The fight between Massa and Milei for the 8.8 million votes that this center-right space, the We Do for Our Country party (of the dissident Peronist Juan Schiaretti) and the Left Front achieved and Workers, led by Myriam Bregman, will be one of the most notable points in the weeks remaining until the second electoral round.
Candidates seek more votes
This Tuesday, The libertarian candidate Javier Milei also offered positions to the left if he reaches the government, in their eagerness to gain support.
“We have the Ministry of Human Capital and in some aspects of the areas that enter there, the people who know the most about this issue are from the left. (…) If you are going to provide a solution, what do I care what you think about the theory of value? I don’t care three radishes,” said the Libertad Avanza leader in an interview with the La Nación+ channel.
Legislator Gabriel Solano, leader of the Workers Party that makes up the United Left Front, rejected the initiative. “It is absurd opportunism from someone who insistently stated for a year that the left is filth,” he said.
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The governor of the province of Buenos Aires, the Peronist Axel Kicillof, one of Massa’s main allies, ironically commented on Milei’s search for alliances.
“Now we have a sugar-coated, advised Milei. He’s not going to be useful either. This offer of a ministry to (former leftist candidate Myriam) Bregman and Bullrich makes him a clown after everything he said,” he told El Destape radio. .
Massa, for his part, launched from that same Sunday to win the votes of the Radical Civic Union (social democrats), also part of the Together for Change alliance.
“I want to speak to those thousands of radicals who share with us democratic values such as public education and the independence of powers. I am going to make every effort in the next 30 days to earn their trust,” he said to be first on Sunday.
He also promised that if he wins the presidency he will call a unity government.
*With EFE and AFP
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