Bullrich supports Milei in the second round of the Argentine presidential elections: "We are facing the dilemma of change or mafia continuity
The former candidate of the opposition coalition Together for Change (center-right), Patricia Bullrich, will support the libertarian Javier Milei in the second round of the Argentine presidential elections, as she announced this Wednesday.
In a press conference held in Buenos Aires together with Luis Petri, who accompanied her in the candidacy as a candidate for vice president, the former Minister of Security said that they could not be “neutral” in the second round and that she is “faced with the dilemma of change or mafia continuity”.
Bullrich was third (23.83%) in the elections held this Sunday, in which the candidate of Unión por la Patria (ruling Peronism), Sergio Massa, won with 36.28% of votes, ahead of the leader of La Libertad Avanza (far-right), who received 29.98%.
“Argentina, from our point of view, cannot restart a new Kirchnerist cycle led by (the Minister of Economy) Sergio Massa,” because “it would lead Argentina to its final decline,” said Bullrich.. “Today we must join forces for a higher objective,” insisted Bullrich, who relied on the Argentine hero José de San Martín: “When the country is in danger, everything is allowed, except not defending it.”
For the presidential ticket that came third in the elections, if Massa wins, the State “will continue to be a den” of employees who do not work, privileges for politicians, “managers of poverty” and gangsters.
“Friendly capitalism”
Bullrich, who returned to the presidency of the Republican Proposal (Pro) party after the license requested for the campaign, said that the current vice president, Cristina Fernández, “will continue to put judges on hand” to guarantee her impunity; “crony capitalism will be the rule”; Congress will “become a notary office”; the governors will depend on the “discretion” of the Executive; and security will be “at stake.”
Petri completed: “Neutrality is functional to Kirchnerism”, alluding to the wing of Peronism embodied by the deceased former president Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007) and his wife, also former president Cristina Fernández (2007-2015).
Bullrich and Petri clarified that they expressed their position on behalf of the 6.2 million votes they obtained last Sunday, but that the parties of the Together for Change coalition – including Pro and the Unión Cívica Radical (UCR), which the former vice presidential candidate belongs to – “have freedom of action.”
“Let's hope this does not mean a rupture in the internal dialogue,” but rather “a strengthening of the future of Together for Change,” said Bullrich, who later added: “From my perspective, if Kirchnerism wins, Together for Change will a total dissolution.”