2023-10-06 01:30:00
The auditorium of the Sheraton Hotel in Mar de Mar del Plata was packed at the time of the arrival of Patricia Bullrich, the only presidential candidate present at the 59th IDEA Colloquium. Her arrival on stage was accompanied by loud applause, which interrupted her speech on three other occasions. This behavior of the world of business executives showed the level of empathy with that audience, but the escape of several figures from the red circle towards lunch with Javier Milei left a climate of tension.
“It is a lie that it is a countersummit. Every year on Thursdays there is a lunch organized by a bank and, last year, I was there. What you are doing is raising the price of a usual lunch. Plus, we had a full room here, so don’t worry,” said Bullrich, in a press conference that took place following his time at IDEA. The opposition candidate had not made any reference to it in her presentation, but all her eyes were focused on the tension generated by the overlapping of events.
Reduced working hours entered the debate at the IDEA colloquium
In fact, when the half hour of the presentation was on average and on the border with the start of Milei’s lunch, the director of IDEA and CEO of Accenture Argentina, Sofia Vago, argued for the end of the talk due to the candidate’s agenda. “I’ll stay as long as they want,” said Bullrich., to the applause of the company executives. This allowed him to extend his participation by regarding 15 minutes, which forced some participants to postpone their hasty exit to the rooftop which is 4.5 kilometers from the Mar del Plata hotel where the Colloquium takes place.
The look at Bullrich, the attention at Milei
The president of the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA), Daniel Funes from Rioja, He kept his word: He listened to Bullrich and was late for lunch with Milei. A dozen businessmen who are also accredited at the IDEA Colloquium had lunch on the terrace of the Furia restaurant.
One of the first to secure a place in the front row was the former CEO of HSBC bank and founder of BFLinvest, Gabriel Martinowho did not have the best start to his relationship with Milei: “You were with (Horacio Rodríguez) Larreta,” the libertarian candidate reminded him, as a reproach.
“We have received more than 500 requests from people who want to come here, but there is a problem of physical restriction,” said Milei, at the entrance to the meeting, where the capacity of 50 initial people was doubled. All expenses were borne by the banker and LLA candidate for Buenos Aires senator, Juan Napoli., which had to address claims to increase the capacity of the place. Businessmen are busy generating links of trust with the libertarian’s environment, but their fleeting passage through the place left them with pleasure soonaccording to sources who participated in the event.
His speech was linear, with only a few interruptions to show his anger at a murmur that came from the back of the rooftop. Once it was for a phone call with active sound; and, the other, due to a private conversation between the libertarian leader Carlos Kikuchijournalist Edward Feinmann and the businessman Martin Cabrales.
“He didn’t say anything new,” complained one businessman, who preferred to keep it off the record. In fact, for most of those present, the lunch served to divide waters in the private sector. “Those who stayed are caste,” one heard people say in the libertarian’s circle. In fact, those present were not comfortable, although they needed a rapprochement to sustain the future of their companies, they stated.
The summit without Massa, but with his vice minister
Bullrich crushed his complaint of electoral partnership between the official candidate, Sergio Massa, and the libertarian Milei. And he said that the absence of the Minister of Economy at IDEA was because it contradicted the motto of the event “Argentines, let’s get excited once more.” “She has nothing to do with it, in the midst of inflation and the dollar that does not stop rising,” the Juntos candidate said in contact with the press. In fact, this improvised conference forced split journalistic coverage.
This Friday, and minutes before closing, there will be a moment expected by businessmen: the debate on the economic references of the presidential candidates. The La Libertad Avanza chair will remain empty, but they will be present Carlos Melconian, the Minister of Economy of an eventual Bullrich administration; and Gabriel Rubinstein, the current deputy minister of Massa. “At least we will have something concrete to listen to,” said a businesswoman, consulted in the hallway of the Sheraton Hotel.
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