Interviewed at length by Infobae, the head of the Civic Coalition left key sentences to understand and order the internal opposition.
He valued his role within Juntos por el Cambio, where he ran as a pre-candidate, more to clarify the positions and put the disputes within the main opposition space white on black than to be the one who heads the formula, and marked his radical difference with Javier Milei , the surprising libertarian apparition.
The most outstanding definitions of the interview:
1- “I am going to be a candidate: this is a strategy and it is to achieve greater integration, not greater division. The level of confrontation that has been seen over the past six months has been very high and wears Together for Change”.
2- “As the founder of Together for Change and founder of the strategy that gave birth to Together for Change, I have the right to be a candidate. By training, background and experience. But I don’t despair to win, this sets me apart”.
3- “Macri is also the founder of Together for Change and no one can deny him that right to be a candidate. I don’t think it hurts anything if I don’t announce his decision yet. As long as we both have a shared responsibility to keep this together and expand, we’re fine.”
4- “Those who speculate that this has to do with bargaining power, I laugh, because I never speculate, I never speculated. That is a problem for speculators. If something has characterized me in political life, it is that I did not speculate. This candidacy is going to be without a campaign, without financing, that is to say, in the Carrió style”.
5- “I have given the seats to many of those people who today speculate, because they came to Congress with my vote and later had their own autonomy. But my generosity cannot be up for discussion. I had a block of 45 deputies of which 20 betrayed me when they took office”.
6-“I always despised the charges. Now do I handle the power? Yes, I wield power and do you know why I wield power? Because I despise it. Do you know why others don’t know how to handle power? Because there are many addicted to power, because they are fascinated by power. He who is fascinated by power cannot handle it.”
7- “Just as the doctor’s defect is to seize his patient and the priest’s defect is to gossip with confessions, the defect of politics is speculation and fascination with power. Those would be “the shadows”, according to Carl Jung, that must be overcome in order to be together”.
8- “You have to let Milei go up and down (in the polls). And if he doesn’t come down, this society will face being ruled by Milei. If Milei becomes president, I’ll possibly go into exile, for peace of mind. If he wins, I would no longer be responsible for the Nation. If the Nation decides the course of irresponsibility, one can no longer do anything”.
9- “Peronism, to contribute to the Constitution and the Republic, instead of destroying it, has to collaborate with a reasonable end of term, because there have to be democratic elections and republican values have to be preserved.”
10- Peronism is authoritarian, while Together for Change and the other forces are republican and democratic. It is a difference and that attenuates the possibility of something more serious in the face of internal power. We are not coup leaders like them.
11- “We all have the responsibility to maintain the Republic, because the economic crisis and inflation are going to be very difficult. The price of meat is going to double because the stock was liquidated due to the drought starting in April. Let’s show another level of public debate, less confrontation, less speculation, less megalomania”.
12-“I do not believe in the crack, nor in harsh decisions that favor a civil war. I believe that the country can be rebuilt from peace and non-violence and also from negotiation with many groups”.
13- “I don’t want to be Bolsonaro. Society must be calm, persevering and calm. I am a humanist, I do not believe in the guillotine”.
14- “Deepening the trial of the Court is detrimental to the Nation and the Government, because everyone considers that it is an attack on the democratic order. It will gradually deflate because when the numbers are not there, the numbers are not there. They pushed it because they want to dirty politics, they want to dirty people.”
