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Argentina: JxC's strength lies in the others' weaknesses
Bullrich insisted Argentina would “free itself from this mafia once and forever” Opposition candidate Patricia Bullrich of former President Mauricio Macri's Together for Change (Juntos por el Cambio - JxC) Monday closed her presidential campaign in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) together with Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, whom she defeated in the primaries and would now appoint as Cabinet Chief if elected.
Bullrich's message focused on the weaknesses of the other contenders but said very little about what her government would be like.
“Now we are more than when we were government,” she said during her speech. “We are going to free ourselves from this [Kirchnerite] mafia once and for all,” she added while labeling the political project of Libertarian Congressman Javier Milei as “bad.”.
“Argentine citizens, the time has come to end once and for all with this nightmare that has been Kirchnerism and it is ending thanks to each and every one of you,” she went on.
“The only thing that matters to [Economy Minister and presidential hopeful Sergio] Massa is his excessive ambition for power, you can see it in his eyes. He destroyed us and wants to be a candidate for president. He is the Economy Minister who governs and wants to be the government and, with him, we are worse off every day. Who is going to want a Minister of Economy who has doubled inflation?” Bullrich argued.
Then she pointed out that Milei's dollarization ideas “cannot be carried out” and insisted that “dollarization without dollars is impossible,” and therefore warned Argentines against buying “colored mirrors because to take Argentina forward you have to work, work and work.”
Bullrich also said she would be banking on JxC's larger “political volume” compared to the one from Macri's times. “Now we have the strength with 500 mayors, parliamentary majorities? We did not come out of a cabbage. We came out of the constant and permanent struggle. Now we are more than when we were in government. We are not going to let us run even a millimeter of the government that we are going to start on December 10,” she underlined.
Then she also announced that former Buenos Aires City Health Minister Fernán Quirós, who jumped into the limelight during the Covid-19 crisis, would be her choice for the same role at a national level if she reached Casa Rosada.
This week, Bullrich will be touring the country for the last time ahead of the Oct. 22 elections, with scheduled appearances in San Juan, San Luis, Mendoza, Córdoba, and Santa Fe for a final rally on Thursday in Lomas de Zamora in the province of Buenos Aires.
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Read all commentsHopefully my Argentine neighbors will realize the BRICKS foolish ideas are bullshite...
Oct 17th, 2023 - 11:22 am +1Although I admire Bullrich in many ideas, I personally think Milei's radical policies are needed to break away from the Kirchnerite mafia.
Argentina needs radical change now!
In today's Business Insider publication China's economy bubble is predicted to fail, which will now affect the World Economy.
“For the past three decades, China has been on the upswing of a supercycle that saw an almost uninterrupted expansion of the country's capacity to manufacture, appetite to consume, and ability to project power across the world economy. The Chinese Communist Party relentlessly pursued economic development over all else, even when that single-mindedness pushed the party to make debilitating policy mistakes — creating a massive bubble in the property market, saddling provinces with loads of debt, and failing to transition away from an overreliance on investment. There was no time to stop for corrections while China's mind was on money alone.”
¡Saludos de La Dehesa!
“Argentine citizens, the time has come to end once and for all with this nightmare that has been Kirchnerism and it is ending thanks to each and every one of you,”
Oct 18th, 2023 - 03:37 am +1The Kirchnerist “nightmare” won't be ending any time soon. Bullrich is a typical politician on the campaign trail.
This is the problem with democracy. Adults, who need to pick a new leader, tolerate their candidates spouting such shit, while choosing a new leader has no room or time for bullshit.
And the media is supposed to correct bullshit information.
How did Macri do getting rid of the Kirchnerist nightmare? He had four years to get rid of it, “once and for all”. It wasn't enough time.
It will take at least 8 years for the Argentine economy to get anywhere near normal.
It's like the Peronists trash the economy to the point of crashing, and then they want to lose the election, so they can blame someone else for the catastrophe they've caused.
And then after four years, when everything is still a shambles, because the mess they caused takes ten years to fix, the Peronists get voted back into power to again wipe out an already wrecked economy.
Having CFK as vice-president really hampered Alberto Fernandez's administration's ability to get away from Kirchnerism.
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