Former President Mauricio Macri spoke this Sunday regarding his decision not to run as a presidential candidate, the murder of the bus driver in La Matanza, and questioned the intention of splitting the elections in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (Caba).
On this point, Macri sent a message to Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, Buenos Aires head of government and presidential candidate, who is analyzing enabling a concurrent election in Caba to unfold the elections.
“I don’t think Horacio would do that, it would be going once morest the neighbors. It is more state spending, more voting time, more lines; It would be going once morest everything we have been working on these years, ”he said, in dialogue with Rivadavia radio.
“You don’t have to change electoral rules in the same year and you don’t have to do them because of speculation on one part thinking that something will change, complicating people’s lives,” he added.
“We must not change the rules thinking that in this way the vote of the Buenos Aires will be manipulated,” he deepened.
Macri, on unfolding the elections in Caba
During another section of the interview, Macri emphasized that a concurrent election “has never been done before in the city” and asserted that “if politics thinks that by changing electoral rules the porteños are going to choose in a certain way, it is not knowing the porteños , who are autonomous, independent”.
Consulted, the former head of state acknowledged that Larreta did not consult him regarding the voting methodology in Caba, although he pointed out that he did speak with Martín Lousteau. The latter seeks to support his candidacy despite the pressure for the only candidate for head of government to be Jorge Macri.
“I explained to him that it seemed good to me to look for all the possible mechanisms so that he can compete, but without affecting the Buenos Aires, that is the limit,” he said.
In a concurrent election, voting would take place on the same day, but with a mixed voting system. The national candidacies -president and national deputies- would be voted with the traditional sheet ballot, while for the local candidacies -head of Government, legislators and community members- the Single Paper or electronic Ballot would be used.
This possibility, allowed by the Electoral Code of Caba, is a way of splitting the election, since the national candidacies would be disconnected from the Buenos Aires categories: on the one hand, the presidential ballot and, on the other, the single ballot for candidates for chief of staff. Government.
“The majority of the PRO disagrees. I don’t think Horacio will make that decision because it goes once morest what we have worked for these years,” Macri said.
Macri, regarding the murder of the bus driver
On the other hand, Macri spoke regarding the case of the murder of the driver of La Matanza that triggered protests where the Buenos Aires Security Minister Sergio Berni was attacked and, later, a political uproar between different leaders.
On this point, the former president made reference to the accusations of Kirchnerism once morest the head of the PRO, Patricia Bullrich.
“By denying reality, blaming Patricia for the murder of this poor driver with the damage to her family, shows a denial of reality, an inability to see that what they are doing is wrong. There is no chance that they will improve,” she noted.
Likewise, he was very harsh with the management of Axel Kicillof in the province of Buenos Aires and described it as “harmful” to society.
“We have to abandon the arrogance that one cannot be wrong, that one cannot say ‘sorry, I was wrong.’ Because when you come so far back, you don’t have to be creative, you have to see the successful experiences of Chileans, Brazilians, Uruguayans, ”he listed.
“I see everything as very pathetic, the level of ineptitude, lack of coordination and contempt for teamwork,” he described Kicillof’s management.
“We see embarrassing fights between national and provincial officials. We see that more and more Argentines are being killed on the streets and that drug trafficking is advancing because the Kirchner government has a permissive attitude,” he stated.
