Euphoric and good-humoured. Committed. This was shown on Saturday President Mauricio Macri at the start of an electoral “battle” in which he is disadvantaged after the beating he suffered in the PASO by coming second, far away, from the formula headed by Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner.
Train travel
At 1720 Macri, his wife, Juliana Awada, his cousin and mayor of Vicente López, Jorge Macri, and other presidential officials arrived at the Olivos railway station. They waited at least 17 minutes to get on the train and while, on the platform, the President spoke to reporters and some of the passengers who then got on the train with him.
He traveled a few minutes standing and then got a place to sit next to Awada. In Belgrano he was greeted with a standing ovation. The candidate from Together for Change came to a friendly territory. A neighborhood and a city where the Macri-Pichetto list swept away. And the stage was mounted on a play that Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, the head of government from the porteño who goes for re-election and seeks to avoid the ballot, serves to show. The railway station of Barrancas de Belgrano was remodeled, there the barriers were removed and it is one of the most modern in Buenos Aires.
“Argentina without Cristina” sang lively official followers.
There were among the attendees Argentine flags, many. And banners with the already classic legend “If you can”, although also showed others that caught the attention, such as that which indicated: “It is not cement, it is dignity”. Asleep
“Selfies”: actor and comedian Alfredo Homemade said present in Belgrano.
Elisa Carrió, the one in charge of opening the event, loudly sanded the thousands of people who listened to her and coincided with Macri in a kind of “challenge” to the militants. She recalled that on the night of the defeat in the PASO, “in that tragic bunker,” as defined, she was the only one to talk about a safe triumph coming in October “because you were asleep.” His comment generated a “no” response from the audience, but then it was Macri himself who insisted on the idea. The presidential candidate told his followers “Let’s go to Argentina, wake up!” and asked that they go out and convince during this month, as well as “participate in networks with conviction, without fear and without aggression.” It doesn’t flood anymore”
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta highlighted several of his achievements in the management of Porteña. He spoke of the place chosen for the beginning of this “caravan” and recalled that there, below the station of Barrancas de Belgrano, there is “a bigger work still not seen, which is that of the Arroyo Vega, so that the city does not flood”.
“It was raining four drops and we were flooded to the waist,” Rodriguez Larreta evoked and received in response the audience’s singing: “It doesn’t flood any more, it doesn’t flood any more.”
The supporters of Together for Change then replicated Macri’s euphoric singing during the close of the Porteña campaign before the PASO. Music for middle-class ears
Pichetto and Carrió opened the event in Belgrano.
The most combative speech of the event in Belgrano was that of the Peronist senator and Macri’s running mate. Miguel Angel Pichetto assured that “if Fernandez wins he will rule Cristina”. He later recalled that “Dr. Zaffaroni (former Supreme Court justice) has been considering the reform of the Constitution. There are some sectors and social movements that tell us about land reform and that are going to occupy the unoccupied departments,” he warned of widespread boos by those who listened to it.
“The adjustment is over, it’s over,” Pichetto said in a message to the middle class.
He then asked to recover “the culture of work” and considered that “plans cannot be forever.” He also said that we must “end the merchants and intermediaries of poverty.” He added, “To them, Jesus would have driven them out of the temple.” In this note:
