Agustín Rossi and Victoria Villarruel crossed paths in the debate of candidates for vice president

The vice-presidential candidates of Unión por la Patria, Agustín Rossi, and La Libertad Avanza, Victoria Villarruel, faced each other last night in a television debate, in the run-up to what will be the exchange next Sunday between the presidential candidates and only 11 days before the runoff. Sergio Massa and Javier Milei’s running mates discussed the economy, at times in a loud tone; work; international relations; safety; justice; Bless you; education and human rights. There were also cross-questions and they had the right of reply. For an hour and a half, the two candidates engaged in extensive exchanges, in which they accused each other of lying and sought to install their proposals for the second round on the 19th. From now on everything you are going to hear from Rossi is a lie, each of the things that he and Massa propose to you simply could have been done in the last 4 years. We have 100,000 new poor people a month since Massa became Minister of Economy,” the libertarian lashed out. On the other hand, he assured that with Milei they will “stop the monetary issuance forever”. When he took the floor, Rossi said that in a government of Sergio Massa the objective will be “to maintain and expand the jobs that exist in Argentina and increase the purchasing power of Argentines.” In this regard, he highlighted the latest economic measures launched by Massa: “More than a million Argentines have received their salaries without the deduction of income tax, and we did it by law. More than 17 million Argentines have received VAT refunds on the products they have bought in the basic basket of goods and we have also presented a plan to promote the new employment in Congress.” When addressing the Security and Defense axis, Villarruel asked him: “Where do you want criminals: prisoners or free?” The Rosario native snapped at him: “He spoke for two minutes and didn’t say a single proposal. We are going to go down two paths: prevention, we have already launched the safe cities plan. We are going to install CIMs, Smart Monitoring Centers, in all cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants, a place where technology and all the advanced technological developments can visualize what is happening. We are going to finance it from the State. We have allocated more than 40 billion pesos.” The national deputy recriminated the death of militants in an accident and Rossi accused her of “carancearing” with the death of soldiers. I represent the indignation of the Argentine people. We are representing two-thirds of the population, they have been there for almost two years, you are a serial official, a wild card of public positions,” Villarruel stressed.The Santa Fe native, for his part, pointed to La Libertad Avanza for having a “foreign minister who says that we have to dialogue with the islanders” who live in the Malvinas Islands.The third point to be discussed was Education, “A libertarian leader clarified that in a Milei government “education and public health will be maintained,” but Rossi came out to point out that those ideas had been outlined by the presidential candidate. In this government, education does not educate, it indoctrinates. And the government uses the children as hostages, today they graduate and they do not know how to solve simple mathematical operations,” warned the national deputy. For her part, Rossi sent a message to women and stressed that they are going to be “the main victims because they (LLA) do not believe in the gender gap and the wage gap that exists.” Rossi and Kirchnerism believe a lot in revaluing women but it is only a declamation, the violence does not cease despite the Ministry, the only woman who is doing well is CFK who collects 14 million between pensions and retirements. She can say that you have privileged and helped her,” he emphasized. The last axis was that of Justice, Human Rights and Transparency, in which Rossi pointed to Milei for his statements about Alfonsín. The violent one of your presidential candidate, Milei, said that he practiced boxing with an element that had Alfonsin’s face on it and hit him; you were in Spain and you said that Alfonsin was a lawyer for terrorists. The lack of respect for a former Argentine president, the first president of the return of democracy, is remarkable,” said Rossi.La national legislator said that Rossi “prefers to talk about the past rather than talk about the quarantine and the pandemic in which many people died.” “They are interested in talking about the past but the reality is that violence is that a government like yours that locked us up throughout the quarantine, the fear is that people will vote for them for a bag of food,” he stressed.

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