The presidential candidate for Together for Change, Patricia Bullrichresumed his campaign tours this Saturday for the general elections next October 22. Within this framework, the former Minister of Security met with victims of the unsafety in the City of Buenos Aires and the Buenos Aires suburbs. What are the proposals of the opposition leader in this area?
The PRO referent was in first place with a neighbor from the 1-11-14 neighborhood, located in Bajo Flores, who in television statements had stated that when Bullrich was Minister of Security the neighborhood was safer. Later, she went to the 1 de Mayo shopping center, in the Buenos Aires town of Loma Hermosa, accompanied by the mayor of Tres de Febrero, Diego Valenzuela, and the vice-presidential candidate Luis Petri.
There, he spoke with different merchants who suffered insecurity firsthand and, in addition, from the looting attempts that occurred days ago. In these talks, the leaders of Juntos por el Cambio “promised to continue accompanying them and making their problems visible so that the national and provincial governments provide the security they need to continue with their doors open and be generators of employment,” said a statement from press.
From Bullrich’s environment they expressed that the candidate wants to continue her campaign in “an austere way, touring every sector of the country and very close to the people.” In any case, the opposition presidential candidate burst into force before the start of the weekend by denouncing an alleged “political agreement” between fellow presidential hopefuls Sergio Massa (Union for the Homeland) and Javier Milei (La Libertad Avanza).
Patricia Bullrich’s proposals on security
Although he did not publish his specific security proposals on his official website, Bullrich has outlined statements on the subject in various interviews in recent months. After the death of the 11-year-old girl Morena Domínguez in Lanús, Bullrich stated: “We presented a project to lower the age of imputability (at 14 years) in 2018. If I have to be president of the Nation , that project will enter the National Congress”. He also spoke of launching a “voluntary civic service.”
In addition, at a press conference in Neuquén, Bullrich said that “it is necessary to end the era of the pickets” and stressed that “order and coexistence” are “two fundamental points.” Bullrich is also emphatic about the fight against drug trafficking: she spoke of sending local and federal armed forces (FFAA) to Rosario, to “liberate” the city of Santa Fe “from the scourge of drug trafficking”: she proposed “going down” with the federal forces there and run prosecutor’s offices and teams specialized in criminal investigation.
The former Security Minister also spoke of creating a special criminal intelligence police for the most dangerous gangs and special prisons for drug traffickers. And to equate what the armed forces charge with the security forces. Finally, regarding the carrying of arms by civil society, she warned that she is against it. “I prefer that people do not have to be armed, I want to follow the Argentine tradition where people are taken care of by the security forces,” she said in this regard.
