The former center-left president Mauricio Macri criticized Javier Milei again and ruled out the possibility of running as a candidate for senator in this year's national elections during his participation in a talk organized by the Córdoba Stock Exchange.
When asked if he had plans to run for any legislative position, the former president replied clearly: "It's not my idea, I prefer to be helping others to take the lead."
After the initial intervention of Manuel Tagle, president of the local Stock Exchange, Macri appeared more relaxed and spoke about how in recent months the good political relationship he had begun to forge with Javier Milei at the start of La Libertad Avanza's administration had deteriorated.
"There haven't been any milanesas for a while, they stopped before the summer," Macri surprised the audience of Córdoba businessmen. The "milanesas" refer to the meetings that Macri and Milei used to have in the early months of the government.
Mauricio Macri, expresidente de Argentina.
Subsequently, Macri criticized Milei's "iron triangle," which is composed of the president, his sister, Karina Milei, general secretary, and advisor Santiago Caputo.
"The President's first proposal to me was the famous merger. I told him that before getting married you need to have some intimacy... And working together never existed," the former president stated, then boasted: "The only thing that happened is that we had to rescue them every time they were on the brink of the abyss so the country wouldn't go to hell."
The indirect defense of Kirchnerism
Pointing out the supposed "mistakes" made in recent months by Milei's government, Macri argued that, according to him, the "lack of institutionality" began to "negatively impact" the successful economic plan.
Mauricio Macri, expresidente de Argentina.
Instead of targeting the coup-supporting Kirchnerism that, as President Javier Milei said, tries to destabilize the government both in the political and social and economic spheres, the center-left former president considered that the volatility is Milei's fault.
"The economic plan is not an isolated fact, one is seeking as a final good that encompasses everything to regain trust. If there is trust, there are people who open a factory and that group of people is in the institutions," Macri considered.
