Patricia Bullrich says the coalition cannot fall victim to Macri

The candidate for the presidency of Argentina said that the “Juntos por el Cambio” organization needs to be “liberated” from the former president

Today, Monday (September 4, 2023), the candidate for the presidency of Argentina, Patricia Bullrich, asked her coalition “Together for change (Together for Change, in Portuguese) No “Falling into the Mistake of Being a Victim of Movements” Former President Mauricio Macri.

“We always fell into the trap of what Macri would do, and it seems to me that we don’t need to be trapped anymore. Macri does what he feels he has to do. We have to free all the members of Juntos por el Cambio and Mauricio to settle because he thinks he should settle.“, said the candidate. The information is from infobae.

The former president, who is one of the founders of the coalition, has sometimes spoken in favor of Javier Miley, the candidate for the October 22 elections, about “La Libertad Avanza” (Freedom Advance, in Portuguese) f winner from the primaries.

“If someone doesn’t want to be on the Juntos por el Cambio platform, it’s their decision, but I don’t think Macri is in that position.” said Bullrich.

Patricia Bullrich also questioned Miley’s economic proposals and said she didn’t know what they were yet.

He said dollarization [da economia]Which generated an intuition, especially among young people who think about the dollar, that he will dollarize the country, and now he says his program will last 35 years. Well, these guys are 60 years old, what’s Miley’s economic plan? asked the candidate. For Bullrich, Miley’s suggestion is Impossible and impracticable.

Bullrich is third in opinion polls

Javier Miley leads the polls in the Argentine elections scheduled for October 22. However, the poll conducted by the University of Buenos Aires’ Faculty of Psychology indicates that the name of the new president of Casa Rosada will not be decided until November 19, the exact date for a possible second round.

In the poll, the right-wing candidate shows 38.5% of correct voting intentions. He is followed by Sergio Massa, the government’s candidate and current Minister of the Economy, with 32.3%. Patricia Bullrich comes in third with 23.7%. The poll interviewed 4,623 Argentines by phone from August 16-17.