2023-05-09 06:28:00
Finally, after several crossed versions, the unknown was cleared up: victoria villarruel will accompany Javier Milei as a candidate for vice president for La Libertad Avanza. as far as he could tell THE NATIONthe 48-year-old lawyer and current national deputy will be the one to share, together with the economist, the formula of the libertarian force in the next primary elections in August. “I want to be in the place that is most useful to the country”he had stated in an interview with LN+ last week.
Officially, Milei announced on more than one occasion that she would announce her running mate on June 24, when the candidate lists close. The economist and her entourage stirred up the idea that the announcement would generate a big “surprise”, which activated a dance of names about the possible companions of the libertarian. Villarruel did not fit that disruptive profile. In any case, she has not yet been officially confirmed by the leader of La Libertad Avanza.
“With Javier we already chose ourselves once. He chose me, but I also chose him, because it had not been the first proposal I had received to insert myself into politics.”he said in that interview. It is that, although it has not yet been officially announced, it will not be the first time that Villarruel has accompanied Milei on a ballot. In 2021, both were elected national legislators for the city of Buenos Aires. They entered Congress to form a bloc that, until the recent inclusion of Carolina Píparo After her break with José Luis Espert, she had the two as the only members.
Villarruel describes the libertarian leader as a “friend.” “We get along well and with our differences we find common ground”, he pointed out in dialogue with Eduardo Feinmann. And, when asked about the rumors that arose after Milei announced in various television interviews that her running mate would be a woman, she stated: “If I am going to be or not, well, soon we will all find out”.
Two years ago, Milei had offered to be his running mate over the phone, a month before the closing of the candidacies for that year that marked the rise of the libertarian on the political scene. They talked a couple more times and closed the deal without seeing face to face, because she was in Santa Fe. “We knew each other well, so much explanation was not needed”Villarruel recalled at the time, in a dialogue with THE NATION. The link had emerged through Twitter, some shared conferences and a handful of mutual friends.
However, Villarruel reported that she was encouraged to take the leap because she was convinced that both she and Milei were two people who had never been in politics and were highly questioned by their speeches. But it was not the first time that she was offered to venture into that adventure. In both 2019 and 2021 she was invited to be part of the NOS listthe party headed by Juan Jose Gomez Centurion.
The lawyer is founder and president of the Center for Legal Studies on Terrorism and its Victims (Celtyv). From that role, he starred in various discussions by demanding a “complete memory”, but also questioning the crimes perpetrated by the last military dictatorship. “The expression state terrorism is not only unfortunate, but also confusing. State terrorism is a political category“, said to THE NATION in 2010.
Celtyv began to take shape in 2003, when Villarruel graduated from the University of Buenos Aires, but managed to legally settle in 2006. From that moment on, Milei’s new running mate dedicated herself to seek testimonies from the victims of Montoneros and the ERP. He wrote two books, gave lectures and led several discussions at the question the figure of 30,000 disappeareda position repudiated by relatives of the victims of the dictatorship.
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