Mauricio Macri's Active Support for Andrés Ibarra and Unconditional Backing for Javier Milei: Latest Updates

2023-10-27 15:35:38

The former president of the Nation and of Boca Juniors, Mauricio Macri, revealed this Friday that he is actively working on the campaign of candidate Andrés Ibarra, who will seek to lead the destinies of the Xeneize club for the next four years.

“Is it true that you are going to be on Boca’s list for the elections as Ibarra’s running mate?” he was asked this morning in a telephone interview on Radio Miter, to which Macri responded: “I am actively working. We have not defined that, but I am actively working because it worries me.”

Likewise, the founder of the PRO revealed that the sports club’s elections were also the reason for conversation with the candidate for president of the Nation Javier Milei: “he told me: ‘I need you to recover the joy of being a Boca fan, I have lost it since that Riquelme is president,'” said the former president. And he added that the libertarian: “he tells me that he also voted for me during the Boca era.”

However, picking up the thread, the radio host insisted on the question of whether he will be part of Ibarra’s list, to which Macri responded ambiguously: “We are evaluating it, we are evaluating it.”

Unconditional support for Milei

On the other hand, within the framework of the next presidential runoff, Macri ratified his unconditional support for the La Libertad Avanza candidate, Javier Milei.

The former president stressed that the ultra-liberal leader is the one who “today leads the proposal for change,” and asked the leadership of Together for Change to “have the humility to recognize that the people chose him and us to support despite the fact that “We know we have differences.”

“Let’s stop screwing around. “We must get out of this slide of decadence,” he criticized, and once again brought to light his old arguments with the Minister of Economy: “Massa always lied to me” and on the contrary “Javier Milei did not lie to me not once.” .

Then, he tried to distance himself from his responsibility in the meeting that Patricia Bullrich and Milei held on Tuesday night, and assured that it was the former candidate who said that it was necessary to “provide unconditional support that is not in exchange for anything.”

“We have not asked him for anything,” Macri swore and perjured, in relation to his conversations with Milei, and stressed that “no charges were discussed.” Of course, he made it clear that “the sympathies that Javier has for any leader (of JxC) are his own.”

The breakup of Together for Change

He also criticized his radical partners, who since Monday questioned his authority in the coalition. He criticized them for their intention to expel former vice presidential candidate Luis Petri from the party (“How are they going to kick someone out for opposing Kirchnerism?”) and called them “arrogant.”

“They want to impose silence when they constantly state that they are going to vote ‘but never for Milei.’ If they are going to vote for Massa, let them whitewash him and have the dignity to say so,” she challenged.

In the same tone, he accused them of “using neutrality to hide their support for Mr. Massa” because their relationship with the minister “gives them greater comfort than the uncertainty with Milei.”

Finally, he launched a call for internal dialogue: “In 20 days, when this STEP (SIC) passes, we are going to sit down again and we are going to say what things we are going to work on together to defend the institutionality, whether Massa governs or Milei governs.” . If we have a commitment to the republic, as I have, we will be there talking.”