The presidential candidate of Together for Change (JxC) Patricia Bullrich said this Friday that we must “put an end to the state managing everything” and insisted with “dynamite the Kirchnerist economic regime”while she once again distanced herself from her internal opponent, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, by questioning her attempts to negotiate with sectors of Peronism and pointing out that she “does not carry out a political marketing campaign.”
This was stated when speaking at the XVI Atlantic Forum organized in Madrid by the International Foundation for Liberty (FIL), led by Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize for Literature, and who debated “Ibero-America, democracy and freedom” and of which he also Mauricio Macri participates.
“What needs to be done in Argentina can be summed up in a single word: order. Order must be reestablished and the State must end with managing everything. Bureaucracies need to be adjusted“, Bullrich maintained when giving his message virtually in the international forum.
Within this framework, he once again insisted on his idea of ”dynamiting the Kirchnerist economic regime” and stated that it is necessary to “get out of the ideological box of Peronism to get out of the swamp of populism.”
Mauricio Macri’s former Security Minister complained that “everything depends on the State, so the bureaucracies have to be deconstructed here,” questioned the fact that “13 (districts) have more public employment than private ones” and argued that it is of “provinces that function as cash registers, collect federal co-participation, pay salaries, build a bridge and that is the province”.
He also stated that they are being raised again, “as President Mauricio Macri did, rearm an Argentina based on principles and values that have to do with a leadership of conviction and a profound change“.
Bullrich comes from starring in a strong dispute with his opponent within the PRO, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, who said this week that the former Security Minister proposes the same “model” that already “failed” during the Macri administration between 2015 and 2019.
These concepts earned him harsh recriminations from Bullrich, who accused him of being a “total and opportunistic advantager who does anything for a vote”, which revealed the degree of tension affecting the opposition coalition after the closure of lists for I PASS THEM.
In his speech this Friday, Bullrich once again distanced himself from Larreta, considering that Argentina “You don’t need a manager, you need a leader.”
“I don’t do a political marketing campaign but rather to raise the minds of Argentines to the fight,” he told the pre-candidate, who differentiated that -before the lists were closed- in Together for Change “there were two paths, two ideas, the first It was that of the head of government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, accompanied by the governor of Jujuy, Gerardo Morales, who believes that Argentina is negotiating with the political sectors, but we believe that this idea has not caught on in society because it is ‘let’s give them the power to a part of Peronism'”.
“That is to say, the how is being discussed in the primaries, with them or without them. We say there is no agreement with populism,” Bullrich said.
According to Bullrich, Rodríguez Larreta presents an “impossible” speech.
“We are convinced that this idea of negotiating with other political sectors has not caught on in society and it is a way of re-entering the usual logic, which is to hand over part of the government to Peronism,” questioned the PRO leader. .
Along these lines, he warned: “Whatever you do, be lukewarm or go deeper, they will turn you around the same way. They are going to have the same attitude of threatening you, encircling you, kidnapping your governance,” for which he considered that the segment related to Together for Change “is turning” in their favor.
“The idea of negotiating with the same corporate and discretionary sectors that have led us to this situation is losing strength. We propose a much deeper change. We cannot be entering discursively, politically, or organizationally, subject to the hegemonic discourse that has Kirchnerism and Peronism have tried in Argentina in so many years,” insisted the candidate.
“What is being discussed is the how: with them or without them. With them they subdue you, destroy you and even turn you over. There is no agreement with populism in Argentina; the agreement with populism is that you be a populist, it is that Argentina continues to be destroyed and degraded,” he concluded.
In another section of the speech, Bullrich assured that “Argentine universities are empty of Argentine students because almost half of the enrollment is occupied by foreign students who come and take those places” and expressed that “Argentines are left in a cemetery at the secondary school because education has been disarmed and destroyed” in the country.
