The province of Buenos Aires it is considered the ‘mother of all electoral battles’. However, it is one of the most difficult districts to govern, due to population density and extreme differences and opportunities. Within the framework of his election campaignthe candidate a national senator by Together for Change Cynthia Hotton and his entourage were victims of the unsafety during a resorted by Admiral Brownone of the hottest areas of the Buenos Aires suburbs.
“Visiting the Don Orione neighborhood in Almirante Brown, we were victims of what the residents of the Province of Buenos Aires suffer every day,” Hotton said through a Twitter post that included a video recounting what happened. Along these lines, the pro-life leader, today an ally of presidential candidate Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, maintained that “insecurity kills.” “We cannot live in fear,” she asserted. And she concluded with one of the campaign slogans of the current Buenos Aires head of government: “# Let’s Do The Change Of Our Lives.”
How the assault happened
The robbery of the leader of Más Valores and pre-candidate for national senator for the province of Buenos Aires occurred on Friday afternoon in the town of San Francisco Solano, within the Almirante Brown party, after a visit to the Jesús es la Luz church. According to THATa man entered through the window of the truck in which Hotton and his entourage were traveling and struggled with one of his assistants.
“The impunity with which everything happened is incredible. Today it was our turn to experience what the neighbors tell us happens every day,” Hotton stressed. Next, he questioned the management of the current provincial governor, Axel Kicillof, and his Security Minister, Sergio Berni. “In the province of Buenos Aires, the neighbors have not lived in peace for a long time because Kicillof and Berni turned their backs on them,” said the candidate.
In the midst of the tension, the thief managed to snatch the cell phone from Pedro Sepúlveda, a candidate for senator from Buenos Aires for the sixth electoral section, for the Hotton space. “People in the Province live in fear. We have reached the madness that people live in barred houses and the jets are the owners of the streets and squares because of a government that is sitting idle,” concluded the leader allied to Rodríguez Larreta.
Visiting the Don Orione neighborhood in Almirante Brown we were victims of what the residents of the Province of Buenos Aires suffer every day.
Insecurity kills. We cannot live in fear. #Let’sChangeOurLives pic.twitter.com/DP92VsiECD
— Cynthia Hotton (@CynthiaHotton) July 21, 2023
Who is Cynthia Hotton?
An economist graduated from the University of Buenos Aires and a diplomat, Hotton worked as a foreign trade advisor at the Foreign Ministry, where she served as consul in Salto (Uruguay) and Puerto Montt (Chile). In 2019, she Hotton was the partner in the presidential formula of Juan José Gómez Centurión and in 2021 she presented herself with her own party ‘+Valores’, in search of the Christian vote.
He first entered the Chamber of Deputies in 2007, although he entered politics four years earlier through Ricardo López Murphy’s Recrear party. Hotton was a candidate for deputy for the province of Buenos Aires in 2003 and 2005, although she did not enter. In 2010, she raised her voice against the law for equal marriage and during the evangelical march she stated: “There are millions of Argentines who defend the family as the union between a man and a woman.”
In January of this year, Rodríguez Larreta added it to his space. He incorporated her into the Executive of the City of Buenos Aires as president of the Social Council. Before the lists closed, Hotton sought to be Diego Santilli’s running mate for the vice-government of Buenos Aires, but she finally signed as the second pre-candidate for national senator for the Province, behind José Luis Espert.
