At the center table of the floating room of the Yacht Club in Puerto Madero, after a talk of an hour and a half, the libertarian Javier Milei was waiting for him with an entree and a glass of wine. “I’m leaving without eating, I have things to do”he said as he approached her place. It is known that the third party in contention between the Frente de Todos and Juntos por el Cambio considers the act of eating food a waste of time, but the rudeness to the plate served was a gesture that the more than 100 businessmen who went to listen to it with Curious, they didn’t like it.
Before that, they put together a VIP room, classic in this type of event, where you usually chat with the CEOs of a small table. But she decided to remain almost totally silent, according to what some businessmen described. She also did not agree to take pictures with onlookers, much less sign the book on inflation that was recently published and some took the event.
Beyond the color data, there was a political definition of the pre-presidential candidate of Libertad Avanza that shook the audience. After having described different adjustment mechanisms, destruction of the Central Bank (BCRA) and dollarization, a group of businessmen was curious to know how he would do what he says, if he will not have -even in the best scenario of his own numbers in the elections- a majority in Senators and Deputies. He got a little annoyed at the question about how, something that happened every time he was consulted on that line, and said: “Let Congress confront the people, who are the ones who voted, via a plebiscite of my measures. We are going to confront society with those who do not want to vote what is decided“.
According to what several of those present told Page I12There was a strange silence in the room. Even Cristiano Rattazzi himself, former head of FIAT, was upset. The same as Sebastián Bagó, the head of the Chamber of Foreign Private Banks (ABA), Claudio Cesario. Also from the party were Adrián Werthein (Group los W), the coffee businessman Martín Cabrales; the head of the Banco de Valores, Juan Nápoli and several leaders of the Rural Society, to whom he sweetened their ears: “with me the withholdings do not work, we remove them, we are going to collect more for Profits,” he described.
“fuck off”
At one point during the invitation, Milei used a series of calculations with which he justified the elimination of the BCRA. “I did not understand anything”, a CEO was honest before this newspaper, while others nodded in what many described as a “boring” presentation. The talk included a macroeconomic analysis with endless quotes from economic books and authors, nothing that the private sector was interested in knowing.
The Círculo Argentino, a kind of club that the Neuss family of businessmen set up many years ago, has been inviting politicians and has planned Patricia Bullrich and Sergio Massa in future editions. But Milei, beyond his mistakes, attracts and is a box office: he was the political leader who brought the most people to lunch (170 people). he just got over it Carlos Menemwhich during his presidency attracted more than 250 people.
The curiosity of all present (many entered in years) was to see how he would make reforms that he proposes and that are very controversial. Another of the questions was also along these lines, and there Milei became a little more restless: “If they say it can’t be done, fuck them, vote for the Jet Front or Together for the Charge”, he replied, with words that he usually uses to define Peronism and macrismo. Although the one he faced was a platform quite similar to his ideas, the character, anger and something else does not close the ceos to them: that he is charismatic on television and on the lecterns, and very difficult to approach in person, where he dominates. the silence.
Milei arrived at the Yacht Club accompanied by six people, without her sister and owner and with Ramiro Marra, her pre-candidate for mayor of the City of Buenos Aires, as the best known. Marra did not get too involved in the dialogue with the ceos either. The other question that remained in the air, because he did not give details either, was what is his army, who is part of it and what analysis does he make of the political competition scenario. He chooses not to answer these types of questions and sometimes, according to business sources, he asks not to be asked political questions and clarifies that he only talks about the economy.
