2023-10-28 01:53:21
Former president Mauricio Macri
After Mauricio Macri targeted the radicals by making public his support for Javier Milei, the National Committee of the UCR responded to the former president’s statements through a harsh statement. “His words are another exercise in hypocrisy,” they said.
During the interview he gave to Eduardo Feinmann this Friday morning, the former president denied that there was a fracture in Together for Change and launched harsh criticism of radical leaders, whom he accused of “compromising” with the presidential candidate of Unión por el Cambio. the Homeland, Sergio Massa, in Congress.
“They have constantly had meetings with Massa, with Morales at the head. They have supported all the laws that Massa asked of them once morest the majority decision, tax increases, retirements without contributions… Morales, Yacobitti and Lousteau negotiating behind us,” he said on that occasion.
In response to his statements, the UCR expressed: “Engineer Macri’s accusation of the Radical Civic Union of having transacted once morest the interests of Argentines constitutes an unclassifiable offense by a former president whom our party loyally supported during the 4 years of his government.”
In this way, they considered that “the former president’s words are another exercise in hypocrisy.” In that sense, the radicals held him responsible for the opposition’s electoral defeat. “With his conduct, he has undermined the possibility of victory for Together for Change, since even before the general election, the engineer irresponsibly paid for an agreement with the extreme right, which undoubtedly undermined the electoral possibilities of our force,” they pointed out in reference to the rapprochements between the former president and the libertarian candidate during the campaign.
Regarding the pact between Javier Milei and Patricia Bullrich, managed by Macri, the radical leaders considered that “Mr. Macri has made an unconsulted agreement between midnight and midnight with a character who makes anti-radicalism a political flag personified in the offense to Hipólito Yrigoyen and Raúl Alfonsín”, whom they referred to as “two heroes of Argentina who have become the heritage of all good Argentines.”
Thus, they confirmed once once more that the UCR will not accompany either of the two candidates, for which they called to “maintain the individuality of the force, without co-option by Kirchnerism or the extreme right.”
Gerardo Morales and Martín Lousteau at the press conference called by the UCR, in response to Bullrich’s announcement (Luciano González)
Bullrich’s announcement on Wednesday ended up uncovering the differences within the opposition coalition. At that time, the authorities of the centenary party called a press conference, which was headed by the governor of Jujuy, Gerardo Morales, and the national senator for Evolution Martín Lousteau, who questioned the decision to support Milei, placing all responsibility of this agreement in Macri and accused the PRO leaders of not respecting the coalition.
As the days went by, the tension only grew. Lousteau reacted to the former president’s statements with a message published on his social network ”, he stated in line with the UCR statement that was published later.
The senator delegated responsibility for the defeats that the coalition suffered in the last two presidential elections to the former president and concluded: ”Now he brings us Milei, or Massa once more with Kirchnerism. It was him or nobody. But the bills are always paid by the same people: all Argentines. On top of that, with infinite hypocrisy, he takes no responsibility for anything and holds others responsible.”
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