The face-to-face between Diego Santilli and Victoria Tolosa Paz: vaccination, openings, co-participation

Diego Santilli and Victoria Tolosa Paz starred in one of the central moments of the debate that took place last night in the program A Dos Voces, in TN. According to the dynamics agreed by the different campaign teams, candidates could choose others to ask a question. And, in that framework, as expected, both candidates chose each other. The first to ask was the candidate of Together for Change (Together in the Province). “Why did they turn their backs on the Argentines? Why were you and your friends vaccinated, using privileges? Why did they buy the vaccines badly and late? Why did they military close schools? Are you going to apologize to people?” was his query. The candidate of the Frente de Todos responded with the figures of vaccinated in the province of Buenos Aires, affirmed that “we are coming out of the pandemic” and asked to “look forward.” In that line, he said: “What I ask is not to go back, because behind is the worst past of Argentina, the timba, the debt, the 44,000 million dollars that we are going to have to return that your government requested.” Leaving aside the economic plane, he continued: “Everything else has already been said. Obviously, you want to keep talking about things that no longer make sense. The agenda of Together for Change is still debt, timba, speculation, Panama, papers or whatever.” “That’s the project you hide,” he added, and concluded: “Between the province and your boss, Rodríguez Larreta, you’re always going to choose your boss.” Afterwards, Santilli had 30 seconds to ask again, and asked him about the measures that were adopted in the last time: “What happened now? They give away bicycles, refrigerators, graduate trips. What’s going on now? Tolosa Paz reiterated, as at the beginning of her first response, that Argentina reached a level of immunity that allows it to release activities and, thus, stimulate economic reactivation. And, at that point, he highlighted the role of the State. “In your world,” he said, “there is no state. For you, it is useless. Let the market distribute at will and piacere.” Then, both candidates exchanged places. Now, the one who asked was Tolosa Paz, who consulted him, directly, for the judicial presentation that the City of Buenos Aires presented to recover the funds that the national government reassigned to the province. “When you are a deputy, are you going to take out the amparo in the Supreme Court against the allocation of funds to the Province?” the candidate asked. I am going to defend the Police of the province, the people of Buenos Aires, but with the Constitution, not in breach of the Constitution. The people of Buenos Aires know that (Axel) Kicillof could not resolve a police conflict, and what the national government did was, instead of working with the province, it took him to another jurisdiction,” he said. “I’m going to defend the police of the province, something you don’t do,” he said, adding: “I’m going to defend the people of Buenos Aires, who live in fear, who when they go out in the morning, in case you don’t know, suffer from the one who comes out of the side that fights them.” But without funds, it is clear to me. Once again defending the interests of the City and your boss, Larreta. When you make that decision, not to take out the amparo, you are harming the people of Buenos Aires. There is no security without funds,” said Tolosa Paz, regarding Santilli’s response. At the time of his requestion, he asked him about the decision of former President Mauricio Macri not to appear to testify this Wednesday before Judge Martín Bava, within the framework of the case that investigates the alleged espionage against relatives of victims of the ARA San Juan. And for his question, he quoted Manes, who today rejected the decision of the former president. “The former president’s lawyers showed up, and when the appeals are settled, he will be presenting himself, if the Justice requires it,” he replied. Meanwhile, he again referred to the discussion for co-participation and claimed the management of former governor María Eugenia Vidal, today a candidate for deputy for the City of Buenos Aires. “It was the only one that increased the co-participation of the Province. He worked to confront the criminals, he ran to the narcos of the neighborhoods, he managed to change a history of regression of many years of the Province.” Faced with Tolosa Paz’s comments, he said: “He spent four years, you 28, and you left a devastated province that the people of Buenos Aires want to change.”

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