Leandro Santoro held Milei responsible for his safety and that of his family

The candidate for head of the Buenos Aires government, Leandro Santoro, today blamed Javier Milei for his safety and that of his family after the presidential candidate of La Libertad Avanza described him as a “sinister character” at the end of his campaign. I’m going to hold him responsible for my safety and that of my family on the street. It’s not free in that place to say the things he said, it’s not free (to say) ‘sinister person’, with the whole stadium swearing,” Santoro warned after Milei’s considerations of him in front of a packed Villa Crespo stadium The Network, the UxP MP contrasted his lifestyle with that of the economist. “People need to know that I don’t drive with a chauffeur, I don’t have a custodian or a secretary; I live like the people I represent. I know that he lives in a private neighborhood, that he has a neighbor [Marcelo] Tinelli, I have Nicolás del Caño as a neighbor, I live anyone’s life, I don’t have a security apparatus or anything.” Santoro closed his campaign in the City with the aim of reaching the second roundYesterday, in the middle of his closing campaign, Milei called Santoro “unpresentable” and “sinister”. And he encouraged the audience that, after that, began to sing “he who does not jump is radical”, given the political origin of the candidate of the national ruling party. “These people, overexcited as they were, can do anything,” Santoro warned. Since I’m a normal person and I’m not going to change my way of life, I hold him responsible for what may happen to me or my family,” he insisted. Milei’s words didn’t just provoke Santoro’s reaction. Another leader of radical origin, but who is part of the ranks of Together for Change, the governor-elect of Santa Fe, Maximiliano Pullaro, defended his rival from UxP, with whom he is united by a friendship that transcends politics. “Javier Milei attacks Leandro Santoro as if he were an enemy and not an adversary. I have clear differences with Leandro, but I have a lot of respect for his trajectory and his ideas,” said the former provincial security minister. And he added that “Milei’s authoritarian matrix also prevents him from being more respectful of the Radical Civic Union, the party of democracy and institutions.” Under this concept, Santoro also warned of “a profoundly authoritarian and anti-democratic component” in the economist “that the Argentine political system should condemn.” For me to say that the problem is that I come from radicalism is disrespectful not only to those who voted for me, but also to the radicals. That yesterday the whole stadium started singing, and he jumping, ‘he who doesn’t jump is radical’, and saying that the problem of Argentina began 40 years ago, and you don’t have to be Guillermo O’Donnell to realize that 40 years ago democracy was recovered, speaks of a profoundly authoritarian and anti-democratic component that the political system should condemn.” Said.

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