2023-11-15 23:22:57
In less than a week there will be the runoff between Javier Milei and Sergio Massa. Looking ahead to the electoral contest on November 19, Patricia Bullrich and Mauricio Macri expressed their support for the rival of the Minister of Economy. The former president stated that in case the candidate of La Libertad Avanza (LLA) Winner “is going to require help.”
Macri considered that Milei “does not pose any danger” because even though some of his proposals “sound extreme,” the libertarian candidate “You will have to negotiate them in Congress.”
«There are things he proposes that sound extreme, but he will have to negotiate them in Congress because he does not have enough votes to do them himself. He poses no danger. It is not the corporate and mafia system. He is a person who today has come to represent many standing citizens who are tired“Macri indicated in an interview conducted by former Colombian president Iván Duque, in a series of reports from the American academic center Woodrow Wilson Center.
The founder of the PRO He stressed that although he had “differences in the campaign” With the libertarian candidate there are “many more coincidences around ending a mafia system.”
In that sense, he emphasized that he “hopes” that if he is elected president “know how to put together a team of good people” because “you are going to require help.”
“And if he asks for it, he will have it from many good people who want a change in Argentina,” he highlighted.
«I think change is what prevails. That’s why we are supporting it,” he added.
Macri pointed out that “you have to understand what a runoff is,” which is “the moment in which you vote once morest someone you don’t want to be (president).”
«What we have to be sure of is what we already saw. Now (Sergio) Massa governed with Kirchnerism these four years. He has had a regrettable performance »he maintained, in contrast to Milei, who – he said – he will give “the opportunity” for being “full of good intentions.”
For the founder of the PRO, the country must “have a public budget in which what is strictly necessary is spent”, “that all privileges are cut”, and “end having a fiscal deficit.”
«Argentina has to commit, and it is a central part of Milei’s platform, as well as ours, the strict and urgent reduction of public spending to balance the accounts. From there, open the country, as Colombia has done,” he highlighted.
Macri on Milei’s position in international relations
At that point, Macri He agreed with Milei in criticizing the role of Mercosur in the region, considering it “one of the most closed blocks in the world.”
“We have to open because in competition we all work better, we produce better quality and at a lower price,” he explained.
The former president made a self-criticism by stating that during his Government (2015-2019) he had “a failure to believe that only by ‘doing’ we showed that things were better.”
«In the world we live in, it is as important to do as it is to tell. We have to communicate the same or better than what we do to prevent those who sell colored mirrors from deceiving people and when they realize that their future has been destroyed, it is already too late,” he added.
Source: Télam Agency
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