Within Together for Change there are two lists with pre-candidates for president and its internal will be defined next Sunday, August 13. Between Patricia Bullrich y Horacio Rodriguez Larreta one of the candidates who will go to the general elections on October 22 will come out. Following this, Jorge Lanata he carried out a journalistic exercise with both of them.
The communicator decided to interview both leaders in PPT and ask them similar questions to make clear the differences between them. The first subject was Mauricio Macri, who did not favor either of the two but has a fundamental role within the coalition. «Macri has every right to say his position. I respect and value freedom of expression,” said the Buenos Aires head of government.
«I think Mauricio Macri is a person of consultationLike all former presidents. He invited me to lunch Sanguinetti and I was chatting for four hours and he told me important things about what happens to you when you are president, when to think about times and solutions Macri is going to have that place. Perhaps I can give you some advice, the last decision is always the president’s,” Bullrich replied when asked if the former president could choose the ministers of his government.
On the other hand, Jorge Lanata asked both of them about whether Cristina Kirchner should be imprisoned and Horacio Rodríguez Larreta maintained that “the corruption in his years of government” but that “the Justice decides”. As for Patricia Bullrich, she remarked that “according to the reality of the progress of her causes, she should be in jail. It is a case with many years of conviction and simply due to procedural issues of age, it is not, but the crime is for jailit’s reality”.
Clarifications from both sides
To end the interviews, Jorge Lanata asked each one something specific about issues they had recently dealt with. For the Buenos Aires head of government it was the social plans, about which he remarked that “we must not eliminate them” because “there are 40% of them poor, how are you going to eliminate them? Intermediaries like Grabois or Belliboni who extort them to go to the demonstrations must be removed. He who has a plan does not take a job. If you have a plan, you don’t work, “he stressed.
For her part, Bullrich was consulted about her idea of entering the Central Bank with a television camera: «I know the Central Bank, notice that a week later it came out that they were putting gold reserves, they are even taking gold. it was a metaphor. What did they criticize the Macri government? That he did not say that it was inherited, I want to show people what country we see to receive so that they know how we are. That’s what it was for,” he said.
